General Riddles

Where do fish store all their money?
On the river banks!

He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
A priest.

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

I started learning to drive today. Just a few minutes back, I went down a one-way street in the wrong direction but I did not break the traffic rules. How?
Simple, I was not driving then, I was walking.

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly.

Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?
Peppers.

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.

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

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