Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch?

Who has married many women but was never married?

When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?

A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.

Who am I?

What am I?

I was born in a small house and I live in it all alone. No windows and no doors have been assigned to my house. The only way I can go out is by breaking through the walls of my house.

Who am I?

Pronounced as 1 letter, And written with 3, 2 letters there are, and 2 only in me. I’m double, I’m single, I’m black blue and grey, I’m read from both ends, and the same either way. What am I?

Until it is measured, not known. Yet how you miss it when it has gone. What is it?

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.

As a whole I am both
safe and secure.

Behead me and I become
a place of meeting.

Behead me again and I am
the partner of ready.

Restore me, and I become
the domain of beasts.

What am I?