General Riddles

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

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

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

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees. Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
Mountain.

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

Which number can you put to fill in the sequence? 23 1 3 25 16 20 6 9 20 ?
19 Explanation: Position of first letter of the words in the question in alphabets.

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your Name

Fill in the sequence: 1 5 9 15 ?
21 Explanation: Position of the vowels a e i o u.

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

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