General Riddles

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an anagram: Almost a _________ started between two brothers to decide who will use their father's _________.
battle and tablet.

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.

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

A headless man had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his sight. The dumb repeated it word for word; And deaf was he who listened and heard. Solve this riddle.
The letter in question is the letter "O". It is zero. The man had nothing to write. The blind could read nothing. The person who was dumb could repeat nothing. The deaf man listened and heard nothing.

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

I go around the world, but always stay in a corner.
Postal Stamp

I am 3/8 of Tortoise, 2/5 of Onion and 2/6 of Tomato. Who am I?
Toronto. Explanation:Tortoise has 8 letters and the first 3 letters are TOR. Onion has 5 letters and the first 2 letters are ON. Tomato has 6 letters and the first 2 letters are TO.

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
Chess pawns.

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

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