General Riddles

A shepherd has 18 goats. All but 6 die. How many are left?
6 of course!

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

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

Fill in the sequence: 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?
1 Explanation: Number of characters used in writing the numbers in roman numerals.

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

I am 3/8 of Tortoise, 2/5 of Onion and 2/6 of Tomato. Who am I?
Toronto. Explanation:Tortoise has 8 letters and the first 3 letters are TOR. Onion has 5 letters and the first 2 letters are ON. Tomato has 6 letters and the first 2 letters are TO.

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

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

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