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

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

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

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

A headless man had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his sight. The dumb repeated it word for word; And deaf was he who listened and heard. Solve this riddle.
The letter in question is the letter "O". It is zero. The man had nothing to write. The blind could read nothing. The person who was dumb could repeat nothing. The deaf man listened and heard nothing.

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

Place a word with 4 letters in between the two words so that it can be used as a prefix and suffix to make two new words. SPOILS_______ION

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