General Riddles

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

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

I go around the world, but always stay in a corner.
Postal Stamp

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

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

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

What gets broken without being held?
A promise.

Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

Complete the sequence: 49 61 51 63 53 65 55 ?
67 Explanation: Alternate numbers increase by 2. 49 become 51 then 53 and so on. Similarly, 61 becomes 63 and then 65.

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Watermelon.

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