General Riddles

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your Name

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

I help you in fixing your appointments and important schedules. You use me everyday several times. Still you keep on changing me every month. Who am I?
A Calendar

On an average, how many birthdays do men on earth have?
1, just one! It is the day when we hit the earth. It is a different story that we celebrate our birthday every year, which actually implies Anniversary.

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

What can you catch but not throw?

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"

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