General Riddles

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).

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

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

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.

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?

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

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. Who am I?

When can you make the following equation correct? 14+1=3
In a clock when we add 14hrs and 1hr we get 15hrs i.e. 3 o'clock

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

The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
Chess pawns.

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