General Riddles

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

I am pronounced with only one letter but written with three letters. Two different letters are used to write me. My color varies from black, blue, green, brown, grey etc. Who am I?

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.

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

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

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

Where does Friday comes before Thursday?
In the dictionary

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

What room can no one enter?
A mushroom.

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!

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