General Riddles

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

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

What is half of 4 plus 4?
6. Explanation: Half of 4 is 2 and then plus 4 is 6.

A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

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

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!

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

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

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