General Riddles

I am so fragile that even if anybody says my name I break. Who am I?

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. 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.

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

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?

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

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

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

A tunnel is 650m long. How far can a horse run into the tunnel if the horse is running at a speed of 10km/hr?
325m Explanation: After that the horse is running out of the tunnel.

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

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