General Riddles

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

The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
Chess pawns.

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

Place a word with 4 letters in between the two words so that it can be used as a prefix and suffix to make two new words. SPOILS_______ION

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

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

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

I am in the beginning of sorrow and sadness. You will find me in happiness also. You will find me in sun and stars but not in moon. I am in summer and spring but not in fall or winter. Who am I?
The alphabet S.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

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