Hard Riddles and Answers

Question: How high would you have to count before you use the letter 'A' in the spelling of a number?

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

Question: A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears." A young man bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it but it didn't say a word. He tried to return the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied.

How can this be?

Question: I can be half without getting thinner.
I can shine with no fire.
I can be hidden but never taken.
I can stay dry while moving the ocean.

What am I?

Question: We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size.What are we?

Question: Why can't the Tyrannosaurus rex clap?

Question: What English word is as long as it is valued?

Question: You have two coconuts and you want to find out how high they can be dropped from a 100 story building before they break. But you only have $1.40 and the elevator costs a dime each time you ride it up (it's free for rides down).

How can you drop the coconuts to guarantee you will find the lowest floor they will break at, while starting and ending at floor 1?

Note: They break when dropped from the same height and they don't weaken from getting dropped.

Question: I can be dropped from the tallest of buildings and survive,but drop me from the smallest ship and I won't.What am I?

Question: I'm written with two letters, said with one and seen with two.What am I?