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

It's pretty hard to give up.
If you remove a part of it, you will be left with a bit.
Even if you remove another part, the bit still remains.
Remove one more and it still remains.

What is it?

Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?

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?

You measure my life in hours
I serve you by expiring
I vanish faster when I am thin
and slower when I am thick
The wind is my energy
What am I?

I add 5 to 9 and get 2. The answer is correct, so what am I?

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

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

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

There was a greenhouse.
Inside the greenhouse, there is a white house.
Inside the white house, there is a red house.
Inside the red house, there are lots of babies.

What is It?