General Riddles

I have one letter but my name is spelled with eight. What am I?
Envelope

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

Fill in the blank: If Tom's father is Tony then Tony is the ________ of Tom's father.

Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.
A matchstick.

When I am open I am U-shaped but when I am closed I am V-shaped. Who am I?
Umbrella

Paris, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Libya, England, ? Complete the sequence by choosing the correct one amongst the following: Mexico, Singapore and Netherland.
Singapore Explanation: The first letters of each word makes the word PUZZLES.

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

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.

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

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