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

You need to spend a night in a building where there is no power. There are three rooms in this building. On the door of each room there are three different signs. One says "Lions Inside - anyone goes inside becomes their supper", the second one says "Open the door and a machine gun starts firing" and the third one says "Electric Room - touch anything and you will die". Which room would you choose?
Electric Room. Explanation:: There is no power in the building.

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

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).

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an anagram: Almost a _________ started between two brothers to decide who will use their father's _________.
battle and tablet.

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

Fill in the sequence: 1 5 9 15 ?
21 Explanation: Position of the vowels a e i o u.

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

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