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A container without hinges, lock or a key, yet a golden treasure lies inside me. What am I?

What can you catch but not throw?

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

Two lawyers were fighting against each other in a case in a courtroom. One of them is the father of the other's son. How are they related?
They are husband and wife.

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

Which room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. Who am I?

When you buy me I am black in color. When you use me I am red and when you discard me I am grey in color. Who am I?
Charcoal

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

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