General Riddles

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

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

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.

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

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

Use the word "dormitory" to make two words which will complete the below sentence. Daniel stays in a _______ _______.
dirty room

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. Who am I?

I am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?
Bookkeeper

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

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

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