General Riddles

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

I don't have legs but I have hands. I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?
A clock.

A tunnel is 650m long. How far can a horse run into the tunnel if the horse is running at a speed of 10km/hr?
325m Explanation: After that the horse is running out of the tunnel.

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

Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.

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.

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.

I am deaf, dumb and blind. But I am very shiny and always speak the truth. Who am I?

What has a head and a tail, but no body?

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