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

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

I have wheels and flies. But I don't have any wings. Who am I?
Garbage truck

I am 3/8 of Tortoise, 2/5 of Onion and 2/6 of Tomato. Who am I?
Toronto. Explanation:Tortoise has 8 letters and the first 3 letters are TOR. Onion has 5 letters and the first 2 letters are ON. Tomato has 6 letters and the first 2 letters are TO.

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

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

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

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.

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

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

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