General Riddles

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

What can you catch but not throw?

A shepherd has 18 goats. All but 6 die. How many are left?
6 of course!

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.

I am pronounced with only one letter but written with three letters. Two different letters are used to write me. My color varies from black, blue, green, brown, grey etc. Who am I?

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!

Where does Friday comes before Thursday?
In the dictionary

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.

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