General Riddles

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

The peacock is a bird which doesn't lay eggs. Then how does it come into the world?
Peahens lay eggs, not peacocks

6 15 18 20 ? = FORTY
25. Explanation: Replace each number with the corresponding letters in the alphabet. 6 = F 15 = O 18 = R 20 = T 25 = Y

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

You can find me in the middle of each month in all the countries. You can always find me only in the night but never in the day.
The alphabet "N".

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

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

I have wheels and flies. But I don't have any wings. Who am I?
Garbage truck

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

I run around a house but I don't move. Who am I?

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