Short riddle contest 50K a pop! (in Contests)

First to post the right answer wins 50K! :)

Sorry got tired of waiting for the tournament to come to a close and gambling contest could close.

Starting easy - Riddle 1 :
Take me out and scratch my head, I am now black but at first I was red.

A match

What is a pencil?

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Riddle 2 :

I may be the answer to some of the world's problems because if you remove the whole of me there is still some left. What am I?

The word wholesome

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Riddle 3 :

I was taking a stroll the other day when I happened upon a house, bizarrely it was wearing... ?

A skirt?

down

address

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Riddle 4

I have two time pieces. They both measure time, yet one has the least number of parts, while at the same time the other time piece has the most number of parts. What are the two time pieces?

A water clock and an hourglass.

Correction: sundial/hourglass

A sundial and an hourglass

ff internet lag

Sun dial and an hourglass.

Sorry, phone call

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Riddle 5 : I feed off myself and when I am finished I will die.

oh yeah, what am I? :)

Fire?

hunger

the sun

or a star

good answers though not correct yet, I guess the sun technically fits the bill though dont they turn into giants or black holes or something?

anger

a candle

a group of isolated cannibal animals (or humans)

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Yep, was a candle, more tomorrow hopefully :)

Little trickier now :)

Riddle 6 : I am yellow inside, red outside and stranger still, I am made backwards.

I am?

edam cheese?

BABYBEL!

Apple?

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Made backwards = Edam :P

Riddle 7 : "Heo, this ridde is about?"

Sorry should read,

Riddle 7 : "Heo, this ridde is about which day?"

Noel?

L Day?

Dangit. I swear I didn't make that up!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Day

Did actually think that it was a guy the ridde was about.. but Noel is a day as well...
Thanks for the riddles and cash!

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Yep, Noel or Chirstmas

Riddle 8 :

Bob "Well this might be a good riddle"
Me "Go on"
Bob "Well you see the more that I take, the more that there is"

What was Bob on about?

Hostages?

Good guess, I should add, Bob is a normal non-terrorist type person :P

Student loans? :)

And for a real guess... footsteps?

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next one will hopefully be a picture riddle, if can get it to work :D

What is this picture a representation of?

pine cone

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Okay, last riddle.

Riddle 10 :
I make Dollars for other people, yet I am not rich myself. People say I have control yet most people just use me which makes me sad. In my life I create stars but I am not famous myself, which also depresses me. But I am told there is always an escape :( I am?

keyboard.

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Thats all for now :D