General Riddles

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?
A cat (9 lives).

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

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.

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

The diameter of a hole is 4ft 5in. How much dirt does it contain?
A hole has no dirt in it. It contains only air.

I am a four letter word. I am an animal. You use me to call your dear ones. Who am I?

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly.

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

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