General Riddles

A headless man had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his sight. The dumb repeated it word for word; And deaf was he who listened and heard. Solve this riddle.
The letter in question is the letter "O". It is zero. The man had nothing to write. The blind could read nothing. The person who was dumb could repeat nothing. The deaf man listened and heard nothing.

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

What can you catch but not throw?

I have wheels and flies. But I don't have any wings. Who am I?
Garbage truck

Fill in the sequence: 1 5 9 15 ?
21 Explanation: Position of the vowels a e i o u.

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
Chess pawns.

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

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

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