General Riddles

People use me to keep themselves clean. I get slimmer whenever I do some work. After my workout is over people need water. Who am I?
A bar of soap.

I help you in fixing your appointments and important schedules. You use me everyday several times. Still you keep on changing me every month. Who am I?
A Calendar

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

I am fair and shiny. People use me to find how hot they are. Some call me God. Who am I?

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

I have a mouth but I can't speak, I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?

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