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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.

I am very fragile. I crack easily. If you cry in front of me, I too start crying. If you smile at me, then I too smile back. Who am I?

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
A Stable

I am a drink. I am also an alphabet? Who am I?

When I am open I am U-shaped but when I am closed I am V-shaped. Who am I?
Umbrella

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

What is at the end of a rainbow?
The letter W.

I have keys but can't open any lock, I have space but no room. Who am I?
Keyboard

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?

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

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