General Riddles

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

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

Name four days of the week starting with the alphabet "T".
Tuesday, Thursday, Today and Tomorrow

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

Where do fish store all their money?
On the river banks!

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

Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane as an old man.

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

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