Riddle #4

Alone I am 24th, with a friend I am 20. Another friend and I am unclean. What am I?

In olden days you are a clever thief charged with treason against the king and sentenced to death. But the king decides to be a little lenient and lets you choose your own way to die. What way should you choose? Remember, your're clever!

One day, Emperor Akbar posed a question to Birbal. He asked him what Birbal would choose if he offered either justice or a gold coin. "The gold coin," said Birbal without hesitation. On hearing this, Akbar was taken aback. "You would prefer a gold coin to justice?" he asked, not believing his own ears. "Yes," said Birbal. The other courtiers were amazed by Birbal's display of idiocy. They were full of glee that Birbal had finally managed himself to do what these courtiers had not been able to do for a long time - discredit Birbal in the emperor's eyes! "I would have been disappointed if this was the choice made even by my lowliest of servants," continued the emperor. "But coming from you it's not only disappointing, but shocking and sad. I did not know you were so debased!" How did Birbal justify his answer to the enraged and hurt Emperor?

Re-arrange the letters, O O U S W T D N E J R to spell just one word.

It is impossible to keep it until you give it someone else. What is that?

I am a five letter word. If you remove all letters one by one from the last, I sound the same! What am I?

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case from which I’m never released, and yet I am used by many. What am I?

If I drink something, then I am just over. However, I can eat anything. What Am I?

What goes through towns up hills but never moves?

Without looking at a calendar, within a minute name a boys name using 5 consecutive first letters of 5 consecutive months.

We are a family of 12 members. I am the second. I am also the youngest in our family. Who am I?