I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. 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?

I am a word of 12 alphabets.

* Alphabets 12, 4, 7, 2, 5 : Eastern beast of burden
* Alphabets 1, 8, 10, 9 are street made famous by Sinclair Lewis.
* Alphabets 11, 3, 6 are past.

On whole it means a person suffering from delusions of greatness.

What Is it ?

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

Only one color, but not one size,
Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
What is it?

Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?

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

Spelt forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backwards I’m something you hate. What am I?

The first person saw the bridge step on it and crossed,
the second person saw the bridge did not step on it but crossed,
the third person did not see the bridge did not step on it but crossed.
Who are these people?

If your uncle’s sister is not your aunt, what relation is she to you?