General Riddles

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

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

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

Replace one letter in each step to change the word COLD to its opposite. Each step has to be a legitimate word. COLD ? ? ? ?
WARM Explanation: COLD CORD WORD WORM WARM

Fill in the sequence: 10 10 22 9 24 8 26 ?
7 Explanation: There are two series - 20, 22, 24, 26 and 10, 9, 8, 7.

Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.
A matchstick.

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps

Look at me. I can bring a smile to your face, a tear to your eye, or even a thought to your mind. But, I can't be seen. What am I?
Memories

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

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