General Riddles

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

Two lawyers were fighting against each other in a case in a courtroom. One of them is the father of the other's son. How are they related?
They are husband and wife.

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

A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

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!

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

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