General Riddles

You can catch me but cannot throw me. Who am I?

Which room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

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).

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

When I am open I am U-shaped but when I am closed I am V-shaped. Who am I?
Umbrella

Find out the difference between 18°C and 64.4°F.
Zero degree

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

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