What is a word made up of 4 letters, yet is also made up of 3. Sometimes is written with 9 letters, and then with 4. Rarely consists of 6, and never is written with 5.

What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?

It has a long neck, A name of a bird, Feeds on cargo of ships, It's not alive,

What is it?

Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men do ?

My thunder comes before lightning.
My lightning comes before my rain.
My rain dries up all the land it touches.

Who am I?

2, 3, 5, 9, 17, _ What is the next number in the sequence?

You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?

What building has the most stories?

These types of puzzles are known as charades. What you have to do is to find two words that are referred to in the first stanza and the second stanza and put them together to form the third word in the third stanza.

Just for example, if my first refers to 'off' and my second refers to 'ice', then my whole will be the 'office'.

My first is present - future's past -
A time in which your lot is cast.

My second is my first of space
Defining people's present place.

My whole describes a lack of site -
A place without length, breadth, or height.

I am under you when I am whole.
I shift above you if you remove the first letter.
I come all around you if you remove the second as well.

Can you tell me who I am?