Why do you find that most of the buildings are deprived of the 13th floor?

James bond was pushed out of an aeroplane without any parachute.
He survived, How come?

There was once a college that offered a class on probability applied to the real world. The class was relatively easy, but there was a catch. There were no homework assignments or tests, but there was a final exam that would have only one question on it. When everyone received the test paper it was a blank sheet of paper with a solitary question on it: 'What is the risk?'.Most students were able to pass, but only one student received 100% for the class! Even stranger was that he only wrote down one word!
What did he write?

A California farmer owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner calls the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to buy. The farmer knows the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?

The following alphametic has only one solution. Can you find it?
ENLIST + SILENT + LISTEN = ANAGRAM

PS: You may start the number from 0.

I am quite hot but become too cold if you remove the first two letters. What am I?

What has many teeth, but cannot bite?

What has one eye, but can’t see?

The peacock is a bird that does not lay eggs. How do they get baby peacocks?

What number when divided in half becomes zero?