General Riddles

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.

Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?
Peppers.

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

The anagram of this phrase is an instrument used in the orchestra. What is it? A bliss nectar
Bass clarinet

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

Find out the difference between 18°C and 64.4°F.
Zero degree

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

What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the start of every end, and the end of every race?
The letter 'E'.

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

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