General Riddles

What happens when an elephant sits on a chair?
It's time to buy a new chair!

Where do fish store all their money?
On the river banks!

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

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

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

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.

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

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

The peacock is a bird which doesn't lay eggs. Then how does it come into the world?
Peahens lay eggs, not peacocks

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