General Riddles

What can you catch but not throw?

What room can no one enter?
A mushroom.

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

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

What is half of 4 plus 4?
6. Explanation: Half of 4 is 2 and then plus 4 is 6.

I am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?
Bookkeeper

Fill in the blank: If Tom's father is Tony then Tony is the ________ of Tom's father.

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

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