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What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"

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

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

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?

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
Nothing.

A headless man had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his sight. The dumb repeated it word for word; And deaf was he who listened and heard. Solve this riddle.
The letter in question is the letter "O". It is zero. The man had nothing to write. The blind could read nothing. The person who was dumb could repeat nothing. The deaf man listened and heard nothing.

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

Fill in the sequence: 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?
1 Explanation: Number of characters used in writing the numbers in roman numerals.

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

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