General Riddles

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

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!

Which room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom

Let us imagine that you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth. Now on the eastern side of that point is an island and on the western side of that point is a lake. Which one is closer to you - the island or the lake - and why?
Neither of the two because when you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth, all directions are north.

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

I come form North, East, West and South. I give you lots of information either verbally or textually. Who am I?

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

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

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