General Riddles

A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

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

There are 17 pigeons sitting in a row on a wall. A boy shoots the fifth pigeon. How many pigeons remain?
None. Explanation: They all fly away at the sound of the gunshot.

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

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

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

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

Fill in the blanks with a word which makes two different words if you read from both sides: Tim's father has kept his ______ in the ______ for scoring good marks in math.
Reward and Drawer.

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

I look like a pearl. Clouds are my grandparents. I am very delicate. I die as soon as anybody touches me. Who am I?

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