General Riddles

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

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.

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

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

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

I am pronounced with only one letter but written with three letters. Two different letters are used to write me. My color varies from black, blue, green, brown, grey etc. Who am I?

I am a part of your body. You can hold me in your left hand but not in your right hand. Who am I?
Right hand.

Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies, Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What am I?
A shadow.

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

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