General Riddles

Fill in the blanks with a word which makes two different words if you read from both sides: Tim's father has kept his ______ in the ______ for scoring good marks in math.
Reward and Drawer.

What gets broken without being held?
A promise.

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

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 is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

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

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

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
Nothing.

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

I have four sides. Anyone can calculate my area if they come to know the length of any one side of mine. I have four right angles within me. Which shape am I?

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