Who is generally closer to the kids, mom or dad?

(it's a funny riddle)

Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?

John is on an island and there are three crates of fruit that have washed up in front of him. One crate contains only apples. One crate contains only oranges. The other crate contains both apples and oranges.

Each crate is labelled. One reads 'apples', one reads 'oranges', and one reads 'apples and oranges'. He know that NONE of the crates have been labeled correctly - they are all wrong.

If he can only take out and look at just one of the pieces of fruit from just one of the crates, how can he label all of the crates correctly?

Forwards I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?

In four steps you need to move the word 'cold' From 'warm' by replacing one alphabet at a time such that every word formed at each step is acceptable in English Dictionary.

What number comes next in this sequence:
7 8 5 5 3 4 4 _

What is the below Rebus indicate?

My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

If we tie a Sheep to one peg, a circled grass is been eaten by the Sheep. If we tie the Sheep to two pegs with a circle on its neck, then an eclipse is eaten out of the grass by the Sheep. If we want an eclipse then we put two pegs and then put a rope in between them and the other end of the rope is tied up on the Sheep's neck.

How should we tie the peg and the Sheep so that a square is eaten out from the garden grass? We only have one Sheep rope and the peg and the rings.

There are forty elephants and they have forty-fore heads. How can this be possible?