General Riddles

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

I help all living things to survive. I give shade to others. People use me for their various needs. I have rings to determine my age. Who am I?

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

We are 3 friends. Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?
1, 2, 3.

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.

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"

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.

I have keys but can't open any lock, I have space but no room. Who am I?
Keyboard

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