General Riddles

What is half of 4 plus 4?
6. Explanation: Half of 4 is 2 and then plus 4 is 6.

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

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

I am a seven letter word. I have two sets of double letters in a row. I can fly like a bird or a plane. Kids love me. I end with N. Who am I?

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'.

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

Fill in the sequence: prl, my, jn, jly, gst ?
sptmbr Explanation:Name of the months after removing the vowels - APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER.

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?
A cat (9 lives).

Place the following letters in such a manner that it becomes something which is used to clean: boas
soap (flip the alphabet b so that it becomes p).

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

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