A man hijacks an aeroplane transporting both passengers(8 of them) and valuable cargo. After taking the cargo, the man demands nine parachutes, puts one of them on, and jumps, leaving the other eight behind. Why did he want eight?

How far can you walk into the woods?

What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; That which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?

Can anyone tell me a word in the English dictionary which has a silent 'z'?

I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?

Twenty frogs are sitting on a log floating on the surface of a river. Two of them decide to jump off into the water.

How many frogs are there on the log at this moment?

In the given picture, you can find two letters missing. When two particular letters are placed in the missing spots, you get an eight-letter word while reading in the anti-clockwise direction. Can you find out the missing letters and the missing word eventually?

A thief is convicted in Mexico. He gets the death penalty. The judge allows him to say the last sentence to determine how the penalty will be carried out. If the thief lies, he will be hanged, if he speaks the truth he will be beheaded. The thief tells the last sentence and to everybody's surprise some minutes later he is set free because the judge cannot determine his penalty. What did the thief say?

What work can one never finish?

Can you identify the direction in which this bus is moving; left or right?

Hint: The bus is moving on the roads of London.