General Riddles

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

When I am open I am U-shaped but when I am closed I am V-shaped. Who am I?
Umbrella

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.

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.

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

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 gets broken without being held?
A promise.

Little John has a habit of throwing things whenever he gets angry. One day he throws a toy of his and it again comes back to him without bouncing off anything. How did this happen?
John had thrown the toy straight up in the air.

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).

I have a mouth but I can't speak, I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?

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