General Riddles

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

I am made up of the head of a lamb, middle of a pig, hind of a buffalo and the tail of a dragon. Who am I?

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

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.

If someone robbed you in the shower, what would you be?
An eye wetness.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

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

Replace one letter in each step to change the word COLD to its opposite. Each step has to be a legitimate word. COLD ? ? ? ?
WARM Explanation: COLD CORD WORD WORM WARM

I go around the world, but always stay in a corner.
Postal Stamp

Complete the sequence: 49 61 51 63 53 65 55 ?
67 Explanation: Alternate numbers increase by 2. 49 become 51 then 53 and so on. Similarly, 61 becomes 63 and then 65.

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