General Riddles

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies, Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What am I?
A shadow.

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

Fill in the blanks with a word which makes two different words if you read from both sides: Tim's father has kept his ______ in the ______ for scoring good marks in math.
Reward and Drawer.

Complete the sequence: 49 61 51 63 53 65 55 ?
67 Explanation: Alternate numbers increase by 2. 49 become 51 then 53 and so on. Similarly, 61 becomes 63 and then 65.

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

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