General Riddles

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

A container without hinges, lock or a key, yet a golden treasure lies inside me. What am I?

A woman met one of her classmates after 20 long years. After exchanging pleasantries, the first woman told the other that she has 4 children, half of them female. At this, the other woman smiled and replied, even half of her children too are female. However, she has 3 children. How is this possible?
The second woman has all female children.

I help all living things to survive. I give shade to others. People use me for their various needs. I have rings to determine my age. Who am I?

Name four days of the week starting with the alphabet "T".
Tuesday, Thursday, Today and Tomorrow

Show that half of 5 equals to 4.
Remove F and E from FIVE IV = 4 (Roman)

. At the sound of me, men may dream or stamp their feet. At the sound of me, women may laugh or sometimes weep. Who am I?

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

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

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

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