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I look like a pearl. Clouds are my grandparents. I am very delicate. I die as soon as anybody touches me. Who am I?

If 0=4, 1=3, 2=3, 3=5, 4=4, 5=4, 6=3, 7=5, 8=5 and 9=4, find the value of 10, 11 and 12.
10=3, 11=6, 12=6. Explanation: Number of letters in the spelling of each figure.

I am pronounced with only one letter but written with three letters. Two different letters are used to write me. My color varies from black, blue, green, brown, grey etc. Who am I?

Two lawyers were fighting against each other in a case in a courtroom. One of them is the father of the other's son. How are they related?
They are husband and wife.

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.

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

. At the sound of me, men may dream or stamp their feet. At the sound of me, women may laugh or sometimes weep. Who am I?

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

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