Which country gets ill every time?

A prisoner is told: "If you tell a lie, we will hang you and if you tell the truth, we will shoot you." What did the prisoner say to save himself?

A newspaper is supposed to have 60 pages, but pages 24 and 41 are missing.
Which other pages won't be there?

When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?

Who is generally closer to the kids, mom or dad?

(it's a funny riddle)

A Scientist was fifty years old in the year 2000 but he was forty years old in the year 2010. How can this be possible?

PS: It has a logical answer.

A Doctor always sneezes before the rain. Doctor sneezes, Will it rain?

In the picture given below, can you find out which digit will take place of the question mark?

You have $100 with you and you have to buy 100 balls with it. 100 is the exact figure and you can't go below or above the numbers and you have to use the entire $100. If there is no kind of tax applied how many of each of the following balls will you be able to buy:

Green Balls costing $6
Yellow Balls costing $3
Black Balls costing $0.10

Now, how many of each must you buy to fulfil the condition given?

I am a white box having no key or lid.
Yet there is a golden treasure inside it.

What Am I?