General Riddles

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

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

Replace one letter in each step to change the word COLD to its opposite. Each step has to be a legitimate word. COLD ? ? ? ?
WARM Explanation: COLD CORD WORD WORM WARM

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

A woman met one of her classmates after 20 long years. After exchanging pleasantries, the first woman told the other that she has 4 children, half of them female. At this, the other woman smiled and replied, even half of her children too are female. However, she has 3 children. How is this possible?
The second woman has all female children.

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

Where does Friday comes before Thursday?
In the dictionary

I am a seven letter word. I am very heavy. Take away two letters from me and you will get 8. Take away one letter from me and you will get 80. Who am I?

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

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