General Riddles

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

What has an eye but can not see?

I have four sides. Anyone can calculate my area if they come to know the length of any one side of mine. I have four right angles within me. Which shape am I?

When can you make the following equation correct? 14+1=3
In a clock when we add 14hrs and 1hr we get 15hrs i.e. 3 o'clock

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".

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

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps

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

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

You need to spend a night in a building where there is no power. There are three rooms in this building. On the door of each room there are three different signs. One says "Lions Inside - anyone goes inside becomes their supper", the second one says "Open the door and a machine gun starts firing" and the third one says "Electric Room - touch anything and you will die". Which room would you choose?
Electric Room. Explanation:: There is no power in the building.

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