What has to be broken before you can use it?

Can you solve the tricky chess rebus puzzle below by ciphering the hidden meaning?

What do the following words have in common?

Assess
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Voodoo

Where do you go to learn how to make ice cream?

In a football game, Christina defeated Teresa by 2 - 0 but no man from either side scored. How can this be possible?

If you had a pizza with crust thickness 'a' and radius 'z', what's the volume of the pizza?

One day Jenifer meets the Lion and the Tiger in the Forest of Forgetfulness. She knows that the Lion lies on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, and tells the truth on the other days of the week. The Tiger, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Jenifer:

Lion: Yesterday was one of my lying days.

Tiger: Yesterday was one of my lying days too.

What day is it?

Three ants are going up a hill, one behind the other. The last ant then says to the other ants, 'There is an ant behind me!'' How come?

If six children and two dogs were under an umbrella, how come none of them got wet?

Can you find the missing number in the third row?
35 20 14
27 12 18
5 2 ?