General Riddles

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

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

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.

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

I look like a pearl. Clouds are my grandparents. I am very delicate. I die as soon as anybody touches me. Who am I?

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

I am a part of your body. You can hold me in your left hand but not in your right hand. Who am I?
Right hand.

A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

What has an eye but can not see?

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

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