General Riddles

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

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

Complete the sentence using two words, which are anagrams. The man with the _______ wanted to have _______.
The man with the beard wanted to have bread.

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 am an eight letter standard word used by almost everybody. If you take away two alphabets from me I will make a logical sequence. Who am I?
STANDARD

Here come the best enigmas that appeared in the Batman movies - usually Riddler asking Bruce Wayne. If you look at the number on my face you won't find thirteen anyplace.
A clock.

He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
A priest.

One day on reaching school I found there were a total of 16 bicycles and tricycles parked in the school compound. I counted the total number of wheels to be 38. Find out the number of bicycles.
10 bicycles. Explanation:: All the cycles will have at least 2 wheels, so 16 cycles will have 16x2=32 wheels. But in total there are 38 wheels. So the extra wheels (38-32=6) must be of the tricycles because bicycles have 2 wheels and tricycles have 3 wheels. Therefore, the number of tricycles parked is 6 and hence the number of bicycles is 10.

I run around a house but I don't move. Who am I?

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

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