What is full of holes but still holds water?

I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?

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

Which word is least like the others? Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth?

Sherlock Holmes was challenged to make a pre-drawn line smaller without erasing it. He did it in fractions of seconds. How?

It is deaf, Dumb and Blind!!!

Still, always tells the truth. What is it?

What is the next number in this series?

4,12,84,3612....

I welcome the day with a show of light, I stealthily came here in the night. I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn, But by noon, alas! I'm gone.

Which digit occurred maximum times between the number 1 and 1000?

Replace all '*' with digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to make below statement true.

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