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

(it's a funny riddle)

What kind of band never plays music?

What word is identified by the below rebus?

Your Your Your Your Your
Your Your Your Your Your

You can take four of the five letters out of this word, but the pronunciation never changes. What is the word?

James ordered a fishing rod, priced at $3.56. Unfortunately, James is an Eskimo who lives in a very remote part of Greenland and the import rules forbid any package longer than 4 feet to be imported. The fishing rod was 4 feet and 1 inch, just a little too long, so how can the fishing rod be mailed to James without breaking the rules? Ideally James would like the fishing rod to arrive in one piece!

Can you make the number 24 by utilizing the numbers 1, 3, 4 and 6? You must use one number only one time and you can use mathematical operation symbols anytime anywhere.

You have two rectangular wires.

Both of them have property that when you light the fire from one end , it will take 60 minutes to get completely burn.

However, they do not burn at consistent speed (i.e it might be possible 1st 20% burn in 50 minutes and 80% can burn in 10 minutes).

So how could you measure 45 minutes ?

An artist while painting a scenic beauty, decides to paint three layers of blue colour on the sky.

Which layer will go on the first?

How many points are there on the globe where, by walking one mile south, then one mile east and then one mile north, you would reach the place where you started?

What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it?