General Riddles

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

What has a head and a tail, but no body?

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

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

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

When I am open I am U-shaped but when I am closed I am V-shaped. Who am I?
Umbrella

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