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 write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

I come form North, East, West and South. I give you lots of information either verbally or textually. Who am I?

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

Name four days of the week starting with the alphabet "T".
Tuesday, Thursday, Today and Tomorrow

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

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

I have a many legs, but cannot stand. I have a long neck, but I have no head. I cannot walk and I cannot see But I keep things neat and tidy as can be. What am I?
A broom.

I have four sides. Anyone can calculate my area if they come to know the length of any one side of mine. I have four right angles within me. Which shape am I?

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

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