Miscellaneous Riddles

Don’t lose it
Don’t lose it
You must keep this thing, its loss will affect your brothers. For once yours is lost, it will soon be lost by others.
How can I die before I was born?
How can I die before I was born?
There was once a man who was born in 1986. The man died in 1985. When the man died he 77 years old. How can this be?
Three men in a room
Three men in a room
Tom, Jerry, and Bill walk into an empty room. Bill kills Tom and Jerry. How many men are in the room.
20th floor apartment
20th floor apartment
A man living on the 20th floor in an apartment building got up early each morning to go to work in a downtown store. He always went into the elevator on the 20th floor and rode down to the entrance (1st floor). When he came home he always rode the elevator from the entrance and up to the 9th floor. He walked out of the elevator and walked the stairs the rest of the way up to his apartment on the 20th floor.
Why desn’t he take the elevator all the way up to his apartment?
How can you?
How can you?
How can you be behind someone if that person is also behind you?
What Color?
What Color?
If the red house is red, the blue house is blue and the yellow house is yellow, what color is the green house?
What State?
What State?
Your in a state. It has millions of electrical waves going through it every second. Some parts of it are white, and some gray. It is small, but very important. What state are you in?
Snail racing
Snail racing
A certain snail takes an hour and a half to crawl clockwise around a certain racetrack, yet when he crawls counterclockwise around that same racetrack it takes him only ninety minutes. Why this discrepancy?
Cross the river
Cross the river
A man is traveling with a fox, a duck, and some corn. He comes to a river with a boat and must cross it, however, he can only take one thing at a time with him in the boat. He can’t leave the fox with the duck or the duck with the corn, how does he cross the river?
On the first trip, he takes the duck across the river and leaves it.
He then goes back across the river and brings the fox. He puts the duck back into the boat and takes it back to the other side of the river.
He then puts the corn in the boat and takes it to the side with the fox.
He gets back into the boat and brings the duck back over.