General Riddles

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

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

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?

You need to spend a night in a building where there is no power. There are three rooms in this building. On the door of each room there are three different signs. One says "Lions Inside - anyone goes inside becomes their supper", the second one says "Open the door and a machine gun starts firing" and the third one says "Electric Room - touch anything and you will die". Which room would you choose?
Electric Room. Explanation:: There is no power in the building.

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

Find out the difference between 18°C and 64.4°F.
Zero degree

Fill in the sequence: 1 5 9 15 ?
21 Explanation: Position of the vowels a e i o u.

Place the following letters in such a manner that it becomes something which is used to clean: boas
soap (flip the alphabet b so that it becomes p).

7. I have three letters. I read the same forward and backwards. I know you'll get the answer, I know you'll see. It's a word that is important to you and me. What word am I?

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