Good Riddles

Question: Everyday a peasant must pay the king one pound of gold and leave it on a collection plate in front of his house. Every morning a guard comes by to make sure he has put a pound of gold on the plate. The king collects the gold every six days from the plate. If the peasant only has one six pound block of gold, how can he make only two parallel cuts and still follow the kings rules each day?

Question: You have two buckets: one with only white marbles and one with only black marbles. The two buckets have the same number of marbles.

How can you rearrange the marbles to maximize your chances of grabbing a white marble from each?

Question: You are running in a 400 meter race and you overtake the last person, what place are you now in?

Question: There once was a horse that won great fame. What do you think was the horses name.

Question: If you have a cake, how many pieces of cake can you form with 3 straight cuts?