General Riddles

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

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

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

I look like a pearl. Clouds are my grandparents. I am very delicate. I die as soon as anybody touches me. Who am I?

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

Swap one letter from each of the words "Right" and "Blight" to make two related words.
Light and Bright.

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

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