General Riddles

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

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

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

6 15 18 20 ? = FORTY
25. Explanation: Replace each number with the corresponding letters in the alphabet. 6 = F 15 = O 18 = R 20 = T 25 = Y

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

Which room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom

What can you catch but not throw?

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!

You need to spend a night in a building where there is no power. There are three rooms in this building. On the door of each room there are three different signs. One says "Lions Inside - anyone goes inside becomes their supper", the second one says "Open the door and a machine gun starts firing" and the third one says "Electric Room - touch anything and you will die". Which room would you choose?
Electric Room. Explanation:: There is no power in the building.

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.

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