Which country gets ill every time?

There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

What is it?

If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?

How many cubic feet of dirt are in a hole of one foot deep, three feet long, and two feet wide?

Why did Navjot Singh Sidhu put the new January calendar in the freezer

There are 4 big houses. They are made from the materials: red marble, green marble, white marble and blue marble.

* Mrs Jennifer's house is somewhere to the left of the green marble one and the third one alone is white marble.
* Mrs Sharon owns a red marbles house and Mr Cruz does not live at either end, but lives somewhere to the right of the blue marbles house.
* Mr Danny lives in the fourth house, while the first house is not made from red marble.

Who lives where, and what is their house made from?

A man is approaching a broad and barren land. He has a package with him. If somehow, he is unable to open the package before reaching the land, he will die.

Can you guess what is present in the package?

There are nine dots in the picture that has been attached with this question. Can you join all the dots by drawing four straight lines without picking up your pen?

What is harder to catch the faster you run?

Three men in a cafe order a meal the total cost of which is $15. They each contribute $5. The waiter takes the money to the chef who recognises the three as friends and asks the waiter to return $5 to the men.

The waiter is not only poor at mathematics but dishonest and instead of going to the trouble of splitting the $5 between the three he simply gives them $1 each and pockets the remaining $2 for himself.

Now, each of the men effectively paid $4, the total paid is therefore $12. Add the $2 in the waiters pocket and this comes to $14. Where has the other $1 gone from the original $15?