General Riddles

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

I can fill up an entire room and still not take up any space. Who am I?

Where does Friday comes before Thursday?
In the dictionary

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?

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

What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the start of every end, and the end of every race?
The letter 'E'.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

The diameter of a hole is 4ft 5in. How much dirt does it contain?
A hole has no dirt in it. It contains only air.

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

What can you catch but not throw?

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