General Riddles

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

Fill in the sequence: 10 10 22 9 24 8 26 ?
7 Explanation: There are two series - 20, 22, 24, 26 and 10, 9, 8, 7.

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?
2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

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

I have wheels and flies. But I don't have any wings. Who am I?
Garbage truck

Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?
Peppers.

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

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