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?

A wooden log balances equally on the scales when weighed with three-quarters of a pound and three-quarters of a wooden log.

Can you calculate the weight of the entire wooden log?

Which five letter word can be added at the end of below word to form a
valid word?

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What is the word or phrase?

It's pretty hard to give up.
If you remove a part of it, you will be left with a bit.
Even if you remove another part, the bit still remains.
Remove one more and it still remains.

What is it?

What number do you get when you multiply all of the numbers on a telephone's number pad?

Can you arrange four 9's and use at most 2 math symbols, to make the total 100?

What does a man do only once in his lifetime, but women do once a year after they are 29?

Replace the letters of words with a number so that the below equation holds true

BASE +
BALL
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GAMES
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On the dull night when the blonde was dozing, she heard an odd clamour and she saw that there was a bizarre man with a gun simply outside her home. So she raced to the telephone to call the police, however, she can't dial 911. Why?