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

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

A container without hinges, lock or a key, yet a golden treasure lies inside me. What am I?

As I was going to the mall I met a man with seven wives, Each wive held two bags, Each bag held a mother cat, Each mother cat had six babies, How many people where going to the mall?
One! As I was going to the mall I met a man...

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

Fill in the blanks with a word which makes two different words if you read from both sides: Tim's father has kept his ______ in the ______ for scoring good marks in math.
Reward and Drawer.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

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.

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

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