Best easy riddles

It can be cracked, it can be made, It can be told, it can be played. What is it?

What comes down but never goes up?

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

You always carry me in your hand, always with you, from your birth till your death! I am a fruit. What Am I?

I’m at the beginning of the end and the start of eternity, at the end of time and space, in the middle of yesterday but nowhere in tomorrow. What am I?

I look flat, but I am deep, Hidden realms I shelter. Lives I take, but food I offer. At times I am beautiful. I can be calm, angry and turbulent. I have no heart, but offer pleasure as well as death. No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have.

When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes And yet never grows?

Pete is a worker on a large ship with hundreds of other men. He is constantly making mistakes, tying ropes the wrong way, steering the ship the wrong way, and making other blunders. One time he accidentally caused the ship to get stuck in a shallow shore, causing thousands of dollars in damage. However, when Steve, the captain of the ship, is asked about Pete, Steve says "I wish we had five men like Pete on this ship." Why would he say this?

There is a box full of marbles, all but two are blue, all but two are green, and all but two are red. How many marbles are in the box?