A thread of riddles.

Riddle 1.

Charlotte is 13 years old. Her father Montague is 40 years old. How many years ago was Charlotte's father four times as old as Charlotte?
A woman is in her hotel room when someone knocks. She opens the door to see a man she’s never seen before. He said “oh, sorry! I’ve made a mistake. I thought this was my room”. He then went down to corridor to the elevator. The woman phoned security. What made her so suspicious?
A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.”
Who is in the painting?
What can you hold in your right hand, but can’t hold in your left?
2 girls ate dinner together. They both ordered ice tea. One girl drank them very fast & finished 5 in the time it took the other to finish just 1.
The girl who drank 1 died, while the other survived.
All of the drinks were poisoned.
How did the girl who drank the most survive?
16, 06, 68, 88, ?, 98.

What is the ‘?’ ?
I stay in the corner, but travel round the world.

What am i?
What was the largest island in the world before Australia was discovered?
What rock group has four men that don’t sing?
This 5 letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it.

What is the word?
When you need me, you throw me away, but when you’re done with me, you bring me back.

What am i?
A window cleaner is cleaning a window on the 25th floor of a sky scrapper when, suddenly, he slips and falls.

He has no safety equipment and nothing to soften his fall, yet he is not hurt.

How can this be?
Alone, I am 24th, with a friend, I am 20.
Another friend and i am unclean.

What am i?
Dee Septor, a famous magician, claimed to be able to throw a ping-pong ball so that it would travel a short distance, come to a complete stop, then reverse itself. He didn’t bounce it off any object or tie anything to it.

How could he perform this trick?
Poke your fingers in my eyes and i will open up my jaws. Linen cloth, quills or paper, i will devour them all.

What am I?
Four men were fishing in a boat on the lake. The boat turned over and all four men sank to the bottom of the lake.

And yet, not one single man for wet.

How can this be?
What is smarter, longitude or latitude?
Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn't figure out how. There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off of, or a table. Just a puddle of water. How'd he do it?
The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States of America had the same parents, but were not brothers. How can this be possible?
Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?
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