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

What can you catch but never throw?

How can you leave a room with two legs and return with six legs?

There are 2 cops parked along a one-way street looking for traffic violations. They spot a taxi driver going in the wrong direction, yet they do nothing.

Why?

If nine thousand, nine hundred nine dollars is written as $9,909,
how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred twelve dollars be written?

Living above a star, I do not burn
Eleven friends and they do not turn
I can just be visited in a sequence, not once or repeatedly
PQRS are my initials
Can you tell my name accurately?

I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

Can anyone tell me a word in the English dictionary which has a silent 'z'?

The more it dries, the wetter it becomes. Can you tell what it is?

I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?