General Riddles

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

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

A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an anagram: Almost a _________ started between two brothers to decide who will use their father's _________.
battle and tablet.

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).

I run around a house but I don't move. Who am I?

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

The anagram of this phrase is an instrument used in the orchestra. What is it? A bliss nectar
Bass clarinet

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

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.

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