General Riddles

How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
12. There are 12 2-cent stamps in a dozen!

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

Find the missing number: 6 13 25 51 101 ?
203 Explanation: 6x2+1=13 13x2-1=25 25x2+1=51 51x2-1=101 101x2+1=203

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

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

What can you catch but not throw?

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.

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

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

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

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