A bag contains 64 balls of eight different colours. There are eight of each colour (including red). What is the least number you would have to pick, without looking, to be sure of selecting 3 red balls?

There was an aeroplane crash, every single person died, but two people survived. How is this possible?

What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?

Do you know of a place where the wind blows south and then suddenly shifts direction towards the north?

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

John bought a new car. He has a habit of eating ice cream from a particular ice cream shop while returning home from office. Whenever, he eats strawberry ice cream, he faces no problem. But whenever, he eats chocolate ice cream, the car starts giving problem. At first, he thinks, it is just a co-incidence but when this awkward incident happens for 3-4 times, he reports this problem to the company.

The mechanic of the company checks but finds no problem at all. The next day, when he stops by to eat chocolate ice cream, the car again starts giving problem.

Can you find the possible reason?

I am under you when I am whole.
I shift above you if you remove the first letter.
I come all around you if you remove the second as well.

Can you tell me who I am?

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

Who am I?

There are people and strange monkeys on this island, and you can not tell who is who (Edit: until you understand what they said - see below). They speak either only the truth or only lies.
Who are the following two guys?
A: B is a lying monkey. I am human.
B: A is telling the truth.

I sleep during the day and fly at night, but I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?