General Riddles

Little John has a habit of throwing things whenever he gets angry. One day he throws a toy of his and it again comes back to him without bouncing off anything. How did this happen?
John had thrown the toy straight up in the air.

I am so fragile that even if anybody says my name I break. Who am I?

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

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

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!

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

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
Chess pawns.

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