General Riddles

Fill in the sequence: 10 10 22 9 24 8 26 ?
7 Explanation: There are two series - 20, 22, 24, 26 and 10, 9, 8, 7.

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

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

. At the sound of me, men may dream or stamp their feet. At the sound of me, women may laugh or sometimes weep. Who am I?

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

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

Swap one letter from each of the words "Right" and "Blight" to make two related words.
Light and Bright.

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.

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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