General Riddles

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?

A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing Monopoly.

Sam's son is the brother of the only sister of Andrew. Dorothy, the only daughter of Sam, has only two brothers. What is the relation between Sam and Andrew?
Sam is Andrew's father.

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.

Fill in the blanks. Both words are anagrams of each other. This year the top 10 horse ______ took place in this huge ground measuring two _______.
races, acres

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

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

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. Who am I?

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

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.

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