General Riddles

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

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

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

You can catch me but cannot throw me. Who am I?

You need to spend a night in a building where there is no power. There are three rooms in this building. On the door of each room there are three different signs. One says "Lions Inside - anyone goes inside becomes their supper", the second one says "Open the door and a machine gun starts firing" and the third one says "Electric Room - touch anything and you will die". Which room would you choose?
Electric Room. Explanation:: There is no power in the building.

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.

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

Place the following letters in such a manner that it becomes something which is used to clean: boas
soap (flip the alphabet b so that it becomes p).

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

Paris, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Libya, England, ? Complete the sequence by choosing the correct one amongst the following: Mexico, Singapore and Netherland.
Singapore Explanation: The first letters of each word makes the word PUZZLES.

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