General Riddles

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn't break the law. How come?
She was walking.

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.

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

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

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

When I am open I am U-shaped but when I am closed I am V-shaped. Who am I?
Umbrella

I have keys but can't open any lock, I have space but no room. Who am I?
Keyboard

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!

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