General Riddles

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

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

I am an eight letter standard word used by almost everybody. If you take away two alphabets from me I will make a logical sequence. Who am I?
STANDARD

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

I have keys but can't open any lock, I have space but no room. Who am I?
Keyboard

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!

How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
12. There are 12 2-cent stamps in a dozen!

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

Where do fish store all their money?
On the river banks!

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