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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.

I look like a pearl. Clouds are my grandparents. I am very delicate. I die as soon as anybody touches me. Who am I?

I am pronounced with only one letter but written with three letters. Two different letters are used to write me. My color varies from black, blue, green, brown, grey etc. Who am I?

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an anagram: Almost a _________ started between two brothers to decide who will use their father's _________.
battle and tablet.

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

Which time of a day when written in capital letters reads the same from all the four sides?

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

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

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

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.

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