funny riddles

am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?

What has legs, but doesn’t walk?

I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?

What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting?

I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?

If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?

What can you catch, but not throw?

What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?

What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?

What has one head, one foot and four legs?

What is the end of everything?

What has hands, but can’t clap?

What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?

I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?

The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?