Riddle #52

Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?

Each morning I appear to lie at your feet. All day I will follow no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish in the midday sun.

What room do ghosts avoid?

What man cannot live inside a house?

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

What can run but can't walk?

Two girls ate dinner together. They both ordered iced tea. One girl drank them very fast and had finished five in the time it took the other to drink just one. The girl who drank one died while the other survived. All of the drinks were poisoned. How is that possible?

I am alive without breath and cold as death. I am never thirsty but always drinking. What am I?

I always come down and never ever go up? Think, think and think! We all just love it.

A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bustrip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?

In a supermarket, the first 25 customers of the day purchased an average of two items each. After a further 15 customers, the average number of items purchased by each customer rose to eight. What was the average number of items purchased by the last 15 customers only?