General Riddles

Replace one letter in each step to change the word COLD to its opposite. Each step has to be a legitimate word. COLD ? ? ? ?
WARM Explanation: COLD CORD WORD WORM WARM

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

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!

What happens when an elephant sits on a chair?
It's time to buy a new chair!

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

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

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

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?
A cat (9 lives).

He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
A priest.

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