General Riddles

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?
A cat (9 lives).

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.

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

Which time of a day when written in capital letters reads the same from all the four sides?

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

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.

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.

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

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