General Riddles

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.

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.

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

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

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

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

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

Complete the sentence using two words, which are anagrams. The man with the _______ wanted to have _______.
The man with the beard wanted to have bread.

On an average, how many birthdays do men on earth have?
1, just one! It is the day when we hit the earth. It is a different story that we celebrate our birthday every year, which actually implies Anniversary.

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