General Riddles

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

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

6 15 18 20 ? = FORTY
25. Explanation: Replace each number with the corresponding letters in the alphabet. 6 = F 15 = O 18 = R 20 = T 25 = Y

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

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.

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 can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.

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