General Riddles

What gets broken without being held?
A promise.

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

What is half of 4 plus 4?
6. Explanation: Half of 4 is 2 and then plus 4 is 6.

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

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

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an anagram: Almost a _________ started between two brothers to decide who will use their father's _________.
battle and tablet.

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

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!

I have a mouth but I can't speak, I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?

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