General Riddles

When you buy me I am black in color. When you use me I am red and when you discard me I am grey in color. Who am I?
Charcoal

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

A container without hinges, lock or a key, yet a golden treasure lies inside me. What am I?

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.

I have a many legs, but cannot stand. I have a long neck, but I have no head. I cannot walk and I cannot see But I keep things neat and tidy as can be. What am I?
A broom.

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Watermelon.

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

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

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.

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