General Riddles

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

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

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

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

Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?
Peppers.

Name four days of the week starting with the alphabet "T".
Tuesday, Thursday, Today and Tomorrow

I have four sides. Anyone can calculate my area if they come to know the length of any one side of mine. I have four right angles within me. Which shape am I?

I am very fragile. I crack easily. If you cry in front of me, I too start crying. If you smile at me, then I too smile back. Who am I?

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your Name

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

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