General Riddles

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.

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

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.

Place the following letters in such a manner that it becomes something which is used to clean: boas
soap (flip the alphabet b so that it becomes p).

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

Show that half of 5 equals to 4.
Remove F and E from FIVE IV = 4 (Roman)

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

I have one letter but my name is spelled with eight. What am I?
Envelope

Find out the difference between 18°C and 64.4°F.
Zero degree

I am heavy and have an odd shape. You drop me when you need me and pick me up when you don't need me. Who am I?
Ship anchor

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