General Riddles

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

Fill in the blank: If Tom's father is Tony then Tony is the ________ of Tom's father.

I have a tongue but I can't talk. I have no legs or wings but I can move from one place to another. Who am I?

Fill in the sequence: 1 5 9 15 ?
21 Explanation: Position of the vowels a e i o u.

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
A Stable

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.

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

We are 3 friends. Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?
1, 2, 3.

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