General Riddles

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

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

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!

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
Chess pawns.

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

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

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

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

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