General Riddles

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

End always begins with me. Time, space and universe always end with me. Who am I?
The letter 'E'.

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

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Watermelon.

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

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

Swap one letter from each of the words "Right" and "Blight" to make two related words.
Light and Bright.

Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.
A matchstick.

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

Tim came second in Math. When his mother asked him how much he had scored, he answered that he got the sum of the first 9 even numbers. His mother immediately worked out the answer. How much had he scored in Math?
90 Explanation: Sum = (n x n) + n Hence, 9 x 9 = 81 + 9 = 90

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