General Riddles

What gets broken without being held?
A promise.

Where does Friday comes before Thursday?
In the dictionary

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

A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

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

What happens when an elephant sits on a chair?
It's time to buy a new chair!

Fill in the sequence: 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?
1 Explanation: Number of characters used in writing the numbers in roman numerals.

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).

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

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