General Riddles

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

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

Here come the best enigmas that appeared in the Batman movies - usually Riddler asking Bruce Wayne. If you look at the number on my face you won't find thirteen anyplace.
A clock.

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

What is half of 4 plus 4?
6. Explanation: Half of 4 is 2 and then plus 4 is 6.

What is the closest relationship my son can have has with my brother's niece's father's brother's mother?
She can be my son's grandmother.

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

Tim came second in Math. When his mother asked him how much he had scored, he answered that he got the sum of the first 9 even numbers. His mother immediately worked out the answer. How much had he scored in Math?
90 Explanation: Sum = (n x n) + n Hence, 9 x 9 = 81 + 9 = 90

What can you catch but not throw?

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

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