General Riddles

Complete the sentence using two words, which are anagrams. The man with the _______ wanted to have _______.
The man with the beard wanted to have bread.

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?
2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

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

A rooster was injected with strong fertility inducing injections that could yield an average production of 10 score eggs over a period of 10 months. How many eggs would it deliver in a single day?
A rooster does not deliver eggs, it's the hen who does that!

Name four days of the week starting with the alphabet "T".
Tuesday, Thursday, Today and Tomorrow

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

Fill in the sequence: ND, JF, MA, ?, ?, SO
MJ and JA Explanation:: "ND" is for November & December, "JF" is for January & February, "MA" is for March & April and so on.

I don't have legs but I have hands. I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?
A clock.

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