Why 1729 is a magic number? Answer Logically.

John went to a parrot shop in Mexico, and the parrot owner told him that his parrot is so unique that he repeats everything he hears. John got excited and immediately bought the parrot. John went home and spoke many words, but the parrot does not repeat anything.
He went again to the parrot shop and complaint to the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper never lied. Explain?

Spot the cat in the picture below

Find the next number in the series

12, 20, 40, 72, 116, 172 ?

Can you count the number of triangles in the given figure?

My location can be determined by the below rebus.
So where am i ?

A woman lives in a skyscraper thirty-six floors high and is served by several elevators which stop at each floor going up and down. Each morning she leaves her apartment and goes to one of the elevators. Whichever one she takes is three times more likely to be going up than down. Why?

Find The Next Number In The Sequence

30 10 15 13 0 16 -15 ?

Keyboard words are not in alphabetical order, Why?

John replied, when asked how old he was. In 2 years he will be twice as old as he was five years ago.' How old is he ?