General Riddles

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

What is the closest relationship my son can have has with my brother's niece's father's brother's mother?
She can be my son's grandmother.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

Let us imagine that you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth. Now on the eastern side of that point is an island and on the western side of that point is a lake. Which one is closer to you - the island or the lake - and why?
Neither of the two because when you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth, all directions are north.

I have keys but can't open any lock, I have space but no room. Who am I?
Keyboard

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!

When I get multiplied by any number the sum of the figures in the product is always me. Who I am?
9 e.g. 9 X 6 = 54; 5 + 4= 9

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