General Riddles

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

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

Let us imagine that you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth. Now on the eastern side of that point is an island and on the western side of that point is a lake. Which one is closer to you - the island or the lake - and why?
Neither of the two because when you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth, all directions are north.

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

On an average, how many birthdays do men on earth have?
1, just one! It is the day when we hit the earth. It is a different story that we celebrate our birthday every year, which actually implies Anniversary.

One day on reaching school I found there were a total of 16 bicycles and tricycles parked in the school compound. I counted the total number of wheels to be 38. Find out the number of bicycles.
10 bicycles. Explanation:: All the cycles will have at least 2 wheels, so 16 cycles will have 16x2=32 wheels. But in total there are 38 wheels. So the extra wheels (38-32=6) must be of the tricycles because bicycles have 2 wheels and tricycles have 3 wheels. Therefore, the number of tricycles parked is 6 and hence the number of bicycles is 10.

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your Name

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. Who am I?

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!

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