General Riddles

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

We are 3 friends. Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?
1, 2, 3.

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

Adam is 13 years old in 1980. In 1985 he is 8 years old. How?
The dates are in BC (Before Christ).

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.

You can catch me but cannot throw me. Who am I?

What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

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.

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. Who am I?

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