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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.

I have a many legs, but cannot stand. I have a long neck, but I have no head. I cannot walk and I cannot see But I keep things neat and tidy as can be. What am I?
A broom.

Fill in the sequence: 1 5 9 15 ?
21 Explanation: Position of the vowels a e i o u.

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

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

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?
Peppers.

Swap one letter from each of the words "Right" and "Blight" to make two related words.
Light and Bright.

I am a fruit. I am tasty and provide lots of energy. You can find also me in a calendar. Who am I?

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