General Riddles

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

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

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

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

If six thousand six hundred and six dollar is written as $6,606, then write eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven dollars.
$12,111.

Little John has a habit of throwing things whenever he gets angry. One day he throws a toy of his and it again comes back to him without bouncing off anything. How did this happen?
John had thrown the toy straight up in the air.

I am a drink. I am also an alphabet? Who am I?

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

What has a head and a tail, but no body?

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