General Riddles

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

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?
Fingernails.

What is half of 4 plus 4?
6. Explanation: Half of 4 is 2 and then plus 4 is 6.

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

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

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.

When I am open I am U-shaped but when I am closed I am V-shaped. Who am I?
Umbrella

I go around the world, but always stay in a corner.
Postal Stamp

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

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