General Riddles

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

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 always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

You can find me in the middle of each month in all the countries. You can always find me only in the night but never in the day.
The alphabet "N".

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

What happens when an elephant sits on a chair?
It's time to buy a new chair!

What is the closest relationship my son can have has with my brother's niece's father's brother's mother?
She can be my son's grandmother.

Place the following letters in such a manner that it becomes something which is used to clean: boas
soap (flip the alphabet b so that it becomes p).

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

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