General Riddles

I am a seven letter word. I am very heavy. Take away two letters from me and you will get 8. Take away one letter from me and you will get 80. Who am I?

I am a 7 letter word. I become longer when my third letter is removed. Who am I?

One day on reaching school I found there were a total of 16 bicycles and tricycles parked in the school compound. I counted the total number of wheels to be 38. Find out the number of bicycles.
10 bicycles. Explanation:: All the cycles will have at least 2 wheels, so 16 cycles will have 16x2=32 wheels. But in total there are 38 wheels. So the extra wheels (38-32=6) must be of the tricycles because bicycles have 2 wheels and tricycles have 3 wheels. Therefore, the number of tricycles parked is 6 and hence the number of bicycles is 10.

What gets broken without being held?
A promise.

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.

6 15 18 20 ? = FORTY
25. Explanation: Replace each number with the corresponding letters in the alphabet. 6 = F 15 = O 18 = R 20 = T 25 = Y

When can you make the following equation correct? 14+1=3
In a clock when we add 14hrs and 1hr we get 15hrs i.e. 3 o'clock

Fill in the sequence: 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?
1 Explanation: Number of characters used in writing the numbers in roman numerals.

Let us imagine that you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth. Now on the eastern side of that point is an island and on the western side of that point is a lake. Which one is closer to you - the island or the lake - and why?
Neither of the two because when you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth, all directions are north.

I am a 5 letter word. Take away my first and last letter, I will remain same. If you also take away my middle letter, I will remain same. Who am I?

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