General Riddles

What gets broken without being held?
A promise.

What room can no one enter?
A mushroom.

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

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
Nothing.

The captain of a ship was telling this interesting story: "We traveled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly." How can that be possible?
The marines were standing back against the sides of the ship so they were looking at each other. It does not matter where the ship is (of course it does not apply to the North and South Pole).

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

We are 3 friends. Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?
1, 2, 3.

Replace one letter in each step to change the word COLD to its opposite. Each step has to be a legitimate word. COLD ? ? ? ?
WARM Explanation: COLD CORD WORD WORM WARM

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

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