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What can you catch but not throw?

I help you in fixing your appointments and important schedules. You use me everyday several times. Still you keep on changing me every month. Who am I?
A Calendar

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn't break the law. How come?
She was walking.

I am white in color. You can't see me in water. I am appreciated if only added in the right measure. Who am I?

Which time of a day when written in capital letters reads the same from all the four sides?

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

Fill in the blank: If Tom's father is Tony then Tony is the ________ of Tom's father.

Fill in the sequence: 1 5 9 15 ?
21 Explanation: Position of the vowels a e i o u.

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