Short Riddles and Answers

Question: A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?

Question: A man came to a hotel on a horse. He arrived on Saterday and stayed for one night. he left the hotel on Friday. How is that possible?

Question: Nary a tick, nary a tock- silent, silent, the handless clock. Tarry no longer; cast off all doubt. The sands of time are running out.

Question: There is a man dead in the middle of a vast oval, and there was a plane flying in the sky. With an unopened package beside him, how did he die?

Question: I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.

What am I?