General Riddles

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

Decode the following message: AENDFNDFNNIRDERDESIIEIIEAEND
A friend in need is a friend indeed. Explanation: Write the alphabets in four rows for example:

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

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

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

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.

I am a 7 letter word. I become longer when my third letter is removed. Who am I?

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

The peacock is a bird which doesn't lay eggs. Then how does it come into the world?
Peahens lay eggs, not peacocks

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