Riddles	

A man is lying in the middle of a field. He has a pack on his back and he is dead.
Why?

Answer: the pack is a parachute. He jumped out of an aeroplane and it didn’t open.

A man lives on the 20th floor of a building. There is a lift that serves all floors. 
Every day he takes the lift to the 15th floor and then gets out and walks up the stairs to the 20th.

Answer: he is a dwarf. He cannot reach any of the lift buttons above the 15th.
	
A woman is in a hotel room. It is late at night. She picks up the telephone and dials a number. As soon as she hears someone answer the phone, she puts the phone down without speaking. She looks happy and goes to sleep

Answer. She calls the person in the room next door, who is snoring. The phone has woken them up so the snoring has stopped and she can go to sleep.
	
A ship is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean half way between America and England. There is no sign of damage to the ship, but the crew are missing. Their belongings are still in their cabins and in the dining room there is food on the table.
The ship was carrying a cargo of industrial alcohol

Answer: (this is a true famous mystery). It is believed that the alcohol started to leak and the crew abandoned ship thinking that it was about to explode.
	
A man and his son are driving in a car one day, when they get into a fatal accident. The man is killed instantly. The boy is knocked unconscious, but he is still alive. He is rushed to hospital, and will need immediate surgery. The doctor enters the emergency room, looks at the boy, and says...

"I can't operate on this boy, he is my son."

Answer: The doctor is the boy’s mother.
	
Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan? 

Answer:  His plan is to dig the tunnel and pile up the dirt to climb up to the window to escape.