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I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

I have a tongue but I can't talk. I have no legs or wings but I can move from one place to another. Who am I?

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

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

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

I am pronounced with only one letter but written with three letters. Two different letters are used to write me. My color varies from black, blue, green, brown, grey etc. Who am I?

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.
A matchstick.

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

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

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