General Riddles

I have one letter but my name is spelled with eight. What am I?
Envelope

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

The peacock is a bird which doesn't lay eggs. Then how does it come into the world?
Peahens lay eggs, not peacocks

A grandfather, a father and 2 sons were having tea in the garden. But there are only 3 cups on the table. Justify how.
Grandfather is the father of one son and he himself also has one son. That makes two fathers and two sons.

Adam is 13 years old in 1980. In 1985 he is 8 years old. How?
The dates are in BC (Before Christ).

What room can no one enter?
A mushroom.

Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

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

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