General Riddles

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

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.

The anagram of this phrase is an instrument used in the orchestra. What is it? A bliss nectar
Bass clarinet

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

I am a six letter word. I always follow you in light, but I disappear at night as I am afraid of darkness. Who am I?

Which time of a day when written in capital letters reads the same from all the four sides?

I am a drink. I am also an alphabet? Who am I?

What gets broken without being held?
A promise.

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

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