General Riddles

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 have one letter but my name is spelled with eight. What am I?
Envelope

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?

Paris, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Libya, England, ? Complete the sequence by choosing the correct one amongst the following: Mexico, Singapore and Netherland.
Singapore Explanation: The first letters of each word makes the word PUZZLES.

What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the start of every end, and the end of every race?
The letter 'E'.

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

Make the following equation correct by using only 1 line: 102 + 5 + 8 = 650
102+548=650 (use the single line to make the + 4)

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!

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

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