General Riddles

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

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

Fill in the blank: If Tom's father is Tony then Tony is the ________ of Tom's father.

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
A Stable

I help you in fixing your appointments and important schedules. You use me everyday several times. Still you keep on changing me every month. Who am I?
A Calendar

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

A shepherd has 18 goats. All but 6 die. How many are left?
6 of course!

Fill in the sequence: 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?
1 Explanation: Number of characters used in writing the numbers in roman numerals.

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

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

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