The peacock is a bird that does not lay eggs. How do they get baby peacocks?

To tease, King Akbar told his most clever advisor Birbal to give his daughter one thing that she can eat when hungry, drink if she feels thirsty and can burn if she feels cold. King Akbar was shocked when Birbal gave Akbar's daughter one such thing that satisfies all of the above.

What did Birbal give to Akbar's daughter?

If you remove one from eleven, it becomes ten. If you remove one from nine, it becomes ten.

How is this possible?

Can you find out the missing number?

? 4 5 3 5

9 5 7 10 3

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?

Suppose you are a girl candidate and sitting in an interview. Suddenly the interviewer asks you, 'What if one morning you wake up and find out that you are pregnant?

How will you reply to such a question?

All of Jacob's shoes are red except two.
All of Jacob's shoes are green except two.
All of Jacob's shoes are yellow except two.

How many shoes does Jacob have?

A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.

Who am I?

These types of puzzles are known as charades. What you have to do is find two words that are referred to in the first stanza and the second stanza and put them together to form the third word in the third stanza.

Just for example, if my first refers to 'off' and my second refers to 'ice', then my whole will be office.

My first is present - future's past -
A time in which your lot is cast.

My second is my first of space
Defining people's present place.

My whole describes a lack of site -
A place without length, breadth, or height.

You and your two friends are working in a multinational company. How can you three find out the average salary of you all without disclosing your own salary to the other two?