General Riddles

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.

Find out the difference between 18°C and 64.4°F.
Zero degree

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?

I am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?
Bookkeeper

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

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

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

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.

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