I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

A large container is kept in open under the rain. Every passing hour, the water collected inside the container becomes double what it was.

In ten hours, the container is filled completely. Can you calculate how long would it have taken to be filled in half?

How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it?

A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later?

There are hundred red gems and hundred blue gems. The blue gems are priceless while the red gems equal wastage. You have two sacks one labeled Heads and the other Tails. You have to distribute the gems as you want in the two sacks. Then a coin will be flipped and you will be asked to pick up a gem randomly from the corresponding sacks.

How will you distribute the gems between the sacks so that the odds of picking a Blue gem are maximum?

What you cannot hold but it is yours?

Look at the picture and find out which square is not linked with any of the other squares.

In The 1st month of this year(the year 2013), I noticed that the date 13-1-13 (13 January 2013) is special.

This date is special as:

Date * Month = Year.

Can you figure out which year of this century has a maximum number of such dates?

Find the missing number in the sequence below:

Things are just as they seem, right? Well, check again.
Can you count the number of tigers in this picture ?