What brings you down but never up?

Eight of us go fourth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we?

A man is sitting in a pub feeling rather poor. He sees that the man next to him is extremely rich. He turns to the rich man and says to him, 'I have an amazing talent; I know almost every song that has ever existed.'
The rich man laughs.
The poor man says, 'I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady's name of your choice in it.'
The rich man laughs again and says, 'OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?'
The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich.

What song did he sing? A man is sitting in a pub feeling rather poor. He sees the man next to him pull a wad of £50 notes out of his wallet. He turns to the rich man and says to him, 'I have an amazing talent; I know almost every song that has ever existed.' The rich man laughs. The poor man says, 'I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady's name of your choice in it.' The rich man laughs again and says, 'OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?' The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich. What song did he sing?

A cat had three kittens: Snophy, Topsy and Jorden. What was the mother's name?

In the below-given picture of a pretty girl, there is something wrong. Can you find out what it is?

Solve the equation by replacing the alphabet with numbers.

MOM + MOM + NO = BOOK=

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

A certain street contains 100 buildings. They are numbered from 1 to 100. How many 9's are used in these numbers?

A rubber ball keeps on bouncing back to 2/3 of the height from which it is dropped. Can you calculate the fraction of its original height that the ball will bounce after it is dropped and it has bounced four times without any hindrance ?

What does below Rebus mean ?

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