Riddles

What month of the year has 28 days?

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

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?

What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?

What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?

What has hands, but can’t clap?

What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?

I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?