When we see 2 but call 10?

2, 3, 5, 9, 17, _ What is the next number in the sequence?

What is the word or phrase?

As a whole I am both
safe and secure.

Behead me and I become
a place of meeting.

Behead me again and I am
the partner of ready.

Restore me, and I become
the domain of beasts.

What am I?

'Ferrari driver' easily beats the 'force driver' in a two-car race. How did Indian newspapers truthfully report so to look as a 'force drive' had outdone the 'Ferrari driver'? Think!!!

A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?

If a boy blows 18 bubbles,
Then pops 6 eats 7 and then
He pops 5 and blows 1.
How many are left?

He does not have any heart but still, He manages to live.
If you kill him, you will eventually die but yet you kill him.
He cannot run, who is He?

You board a train. The train will have to enter a tunnel soon. You are claustrophobic. Which place is the best for you to sit?

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