General Riddles

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

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the start of every end, and the end of every race?
The letter 'E'.

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

A woman met one of her classmates after 20 long years. After exchanging pleasantries, the first woman told the other that she has 4 children, half of them female. At this, the other woman smiled and replied, even half of her children too are female. However, she has 3 children. How is this possible?
The second woman has all female children.

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

I don't have legs but I have hands. I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?
A clock.

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!

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

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.

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