General Riddles

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

Which room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom

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

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

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

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
Nothing.

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

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!

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

A container without hinges, lock or a key, yet a golden treasure lies inside me. What am I?

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