General Riddles

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

A rooster was injected with strong fertility inducing injections that could yield an average production of 10 score eggs over a period of 10 months. How many eggs would it deliver in a single day?
A rooster does not deliver eggs, it's the hen who does that!

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

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.

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

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

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

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 _______.

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

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.

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