RIDDLES!!

1] How many letters are in the alphabet?

2] What row of numbers comes next?This is a tough one!
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

3] A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?

4] A farmer and his hired help were carrying grain to the barn. The farmer carried one sack of grain and the hired help carried two sacks. Who carried the heavier load and why?

5] George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee.Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda.Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?

6] There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

7] What is the next 3 letters in this riddle?o t t f f s s _ _ _

8] What do these 3 have in common?SupermanMosesThe Cabbage Patch Kids

9] Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

10] This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!

Careful...the answers follow
ANSWERS
1A] There are 11 letters in "THE ALPHABET"Did you say 26? :)
2A] The next row is1113213211Starting with the second line, every line describes the line before it. In writing, it is:One OneTwo OnesOne Two One Oneetc.etc.
3A] ALL the children are boys, so 1/2 half are boys and so is the other half.
4A] The farmer's load was heavier. His hired help only carried two sacks, while the farmer carries one sack, but his sack is a sack of grain. The hired help only carried 2 sacks - both empty.
5A] Elizabeth is drinking coffee. The letter E appears twice in her name, as it does in the names of the others that are drinking coffee.
6A] The base word is Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I
7A] e n t They represent the first letter when writing the numbers one thru ten.
8A] They were all adopted!
9A] Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
10A] The letter "e", which is the most common letter in the English language, does not appear once in the long paragraph.