General Riddles

I have a tongue but I can't talk. I have no legs or wings but I can move from one place to another. Who am I?

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

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

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.

If six thousand six hundred and six dollar is written as $6,606, then write eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven dollars.
$12,111.

Adam is 13 years old in 1980. In 1985 he is 8 years old. How?
The dates are in BC (Before Christ).

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'.

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.

When you buy me I am black in color. When you use me I am red and when you discard me I am grey in color. Who am I?
Charcoal

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