General Riddles

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

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Watermelon.

I have four sides. Anyone can calculate my area if they come to know the length of any one side of mine. I have four right angles within me. Which shape am I?

If six thousand six hundred and six dollar is written as $6,606, then write eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven dollars.
$12,111.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?
2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

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

7. I have three letters. I read the same forward and backwards. I know you'll get the answer, I know you'll see. It's a word that is important to you and me. What word 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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