General Riddles

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What 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

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!

How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
12. There are 12 2-cent stamps in a dozen!

I run around a house but I don't move. Who am I?

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly.

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. Who am I?

Name four days of the week starting with the alphabet "T".
Tuesday, Thursday, Today and Tomorrow

Let us imagine that you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth. Now on the eastern side of that point is an island and on the western side of that point is a lake. Which one is closer to you - the island or the lake - and why?
Neither of the two because when you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth, all directions are north.

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