General Riddles

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

As I was going to the mall I met a man with seven wives, Each wive held two bags, Each bag held a mother cat, Each mother cat had six babies, How many people where going to the mall?
One! As I was going to the mall I met a man...

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?
A cat (9 lives).

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

The anagram of this phrase is an instrument used in the orchestra. What is it? A bliss nectar
Bass clarinet

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Watermelon.

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

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