General Riddles

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

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

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

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

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

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

Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.

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.

I can fill up an entire room and still not take up any space. Who am I?

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