General Riddles

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

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

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

I am a four letter word. I am an animal. You use me to call your dear ones. Who am I?

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

I go around the world, but always stay in a corner.
Postal Stamp

Let us imagine that you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth. Now on the eastern side of that point is an island and on the western side of that point is a lake. Which one is closer to you - the island or the lake - and why?
Neither of the two because when you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth, all directions are north.

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

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