Which country gets ill every time?

A maths symbol is hidden in the below Bar Graph. Can you decipher it?

I am lying and I always lie. Tell me whether I am lying or telling the truth.

It has a long neck, A name of a bird, Feeds on cargo of ships, It's not alive,

What is it?

In a chess board, the queen piece can move horizontally, vertically and diagonally freely. The picture represents the same.Can you place 8 queens on the board in a manner that none of the queens can attack each other?

There was a strange boy who was born before his father. How can this be possible?

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

A thief enters a store and threatens the clerk, forcing her to open the safe. The clerk says, “The code for the safe is different every day, and if you hurt me you’ll never get the code.” But the thief manages to guess the code on his own. How did he do it?

A beggar on the street can make one cigarette out of every 6 cigarette butts he finds. After one whole day of searching and checking public ashtrays the beggar finds a total of 72 cigarette butts. How many cigarettes can he make and smoke from the butts he found?

What you cannot hold but it is yours?