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

(it's a funny riddle)

Why is the longest human nose just 11 inches?

John named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third Charlie and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son's name?

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

As you can see that fifteen matches have been used to form an arrangement. What you have to do is remove any six of them to make them ten.

I am a word of 12 alphabets.

* Alphabets 12, 4, 7, 2, 5 : Eastern beast of burden
* Alphabets 1, 8, 10, 9 are street made famous by Sinclair Lewis.
* Alphabets 11, 3, 6 are past.

On whole it means a person suffering from delusions of greatness.

What Is it ?

I noticed one of the words in the oxford dictionary is spelled incorrectly. What about you?

Keyboard words are not in alphabetical order, Why?

There are 2 sand hourglasses.

The small one can measure 5 hours and the large one can measure 7 hours.

How can we measure 16 hours with 2 sand hourglasses running together ?

I am a prime number.
The double of myself is equal to the square of me.

which number am I?