General Riddles

I have keys but can't open any lock, I have space but no room. Who am I?
Keyboard

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.

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

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

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).

Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.
A matchstick.

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

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

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

What is the closest relationship my son can have has with my brother's niece's father's brother's mother?
She can be my son's grandmother.

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