What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

A word I know,
Six letters contain,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.

A clock loses 10 minutes each hour. If the clock is set correctly at noon, what time is it when it reads 3 PM?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

You can hear me, but you can't touch or see me.

What am I?

Find the last number in the series below:

voN luJ yaM raM ---

In a town, there are four houses located at different distances from each other. Following are the distances:

The third house is 60 meters apart from the first house.
The fourth house is 40 meters apart from the second house.
The third house is 10 meters nearer to the fourth house than it is to the second house.

Can you find out the distance between the fourth and the first house?

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

I don't get anymore wetter, no matter how much rain falls on me.

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