General Riddles

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

What happens when an elephant sits on a chair?
It's time to buy a new chair!

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

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Watermelon.

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

I have a tongue but I can't talk. I have no legs or wings but I can move from one place to another. Who am I?

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!

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps

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

Tim came second in Math. When his mother asked him how much he had scored, he answered that he got the sum of the first 9 even numbers. His mother immediately worked out the answer. How much had he scored in Math?
90 Explanation: Sum = (n x n) + n Hence, 9 x 9 = 81 + 9 = 90

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