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I am a four letter word. I am an animal. You use me to call your dear ones. Who am I?

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

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.

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

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'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

Show that half of 5 equals to 4.
Remove F and E from FIVE IV = 4 (Roman)

Make the following equation correct by using only 1 line: 102 + 5 + 8 = 650
102+548=650 (use the single line to make the + 4)

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

Let us imagine that you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth. Now on the eastern side of that point is an island and on the western side of that point is a lake. Which one is closer to you - the island or the lake - and why?
Neither of the two because when you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth, all directions are north.

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