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

Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000?

I throw two dice simultaneously.

What is the probability of getting a sum as 9 of the two numbers shown?

In a guessing game, five friends had to guess the exact numbers of apples in a covered basket.
Friends guessed 22, 24, 29, 33, and 38, but none of the guesses was correct. The guesses were off by 1, 8, 6, 3, and 8 (in random order).

Can you determine the number of apples in a basket from this information?

When you stop to look, you can always see me. But if you try to touch me, you can never feel me. Although you walk towards me, I remain the same distance from you. What am I?

The dirtier I get, the whiter I look. Who am I?

Today is a very icy and cold morning in Newcastle. Mr Shearer, an office bus driver arrived to pick up the employees from the last stop. Shearer suddenly remembers that he needs to pick a newly joined 4miles to the north. Mr Shearer lost his direction compass, a few minutes later Shearer is able to figure that he is moving in the correct direction i.e. north. How did Shearer know that he is moving in the correct direction?

One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number.
What is the pattern?

My friends called me Iron59 because my parents are a chemist and a mathematician. What is my real name?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?