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Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies, Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What am I?
A shadow.

A grandfather, a father and 2 sons were having tea in the garden. But there are only 3 cups on the table. Justify how.
Grandfather is the father of one son and he himself also has one son. That makes two fathers and two sons.

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
Chess pawns.

Fill in the sequence: 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?
1 Explanation: Number of characters used in writing the numbers in roman numerals.

You can find me in the middle of each month in all the countries. You can always find me only in the night but never in the day.
The alphabet "N".

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

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

Show that half of 5 equals to 4.
Remove F and E from FIVE IV = 4 (Roman)

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

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