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

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

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

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

I am deaf, dumb and blind. But I am very shiny and always speak the truth. Who am I?

Fill in the sequence: 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?
1 Explanation: Number of characters used in writing the numbers in roman numerals.

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

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

I am a six letter word. I always follow you in light, but I disappear at night as I am afraid of darkness. Who am I?

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?
2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

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