General Riddles

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

I can fill up an entire room and still not take up any space. 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.

Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

Show that half of 5 equals to 4.
Remove F and E from FIVE IV = 4 (Roman)

I am a six letter word. I always follow you in light, but I disappear at night as I am afraid of darkness. Who am I?

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.

The anagram of this phrase is an instrument used in the orchestra. What is it? A bliss nectar
Bass clarinet

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

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