General Riddles

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

I can fill up an entire room and still not take up any space. Who am I?

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

What is the closest relationship my son can have has with my brother's niece's father's brother's mother?
She can be my son's grandmother.

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

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 am a drink. I am also an alphabet? Who am I?

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

Paris, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Libya, England, ? Complete the sequence by choosing the correct one amongst the following: Mexico, Singapore and Netherland.
Singapore Explanation: The first letters of each word makes the word PUZZLES.

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

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