General Riddles

I am heavy and have an odd shape. You drop me when you need me and pick me up when you don't need me. Who am I?
Ship anchor

What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

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 occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

Fill in the sequence: 1 5 9 15 ?
21 Explanation: Position of the vowels a e i o u.

I run around a house but I don't move. Who am I?

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

Sam's son is the brother of the only sister of Andrew. Dorothy, the only daughter of Sam, has only two brothers. What is the relation between Sam and Andrew?
Sam is Andrew's father.

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

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