General Riddles

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

Little John has a habit of throwing things whenever he gets angry. One day he throws a toy of his and it again comes back to him without bouncing off anything. How did this happen?
John had thrown the toy straight up in the air.

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 can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.

What room can no one enter?
A mushroom.

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

Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

I am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?
Bookkeeper

A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

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