General Riddles

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

What has an eye but can not see?

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

Complete the sequence: 49 61 51 63 53 65 55 ?
67 Explanation: Alternate numbers increase by 2. 49 become 51 then 53 and so on. Similarly, 61 becomes 63 and then 65.

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

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

Fill in the blanks. Both words are anagrams of each other. This year the top 10 horse ______ took place in this huge ground measuring two _______.
races, acres

Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane as an old man.

A woman met one of her classmates after 20 long years. After exchanging pleasantries, the first woman told the other that she has 4 children, half of them female. At this, the other woman smiled and replied, even half of her children too are female. However, she has 3 children. How is this possible?
The second woman has all female children.

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