General Riddles

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

Where does Friday comes before Thursday?
In the dictionary

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

A woman met one of her classmates after 20 long years. After exchanging pleasantries, the first woman told the other that she has 4 children, half of them female. At this, the other woman smiled and replied, even half of her children too are female. However, she has 3 children. How is this possible?
The second woman has all female children.

I don't have legs but I have hands. I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?
A clock.

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
Nothing.

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

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

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