What brings you down but never up?

John left on a horse on Thursday , was gone for two days, and came back on Thursday after completing his work. How did that happen?

Yesterday I fell from 30 feet high ladder but I don't get hurt. Why?

They do not possess flesh or feathers or scales or bone
But still, they are blessed with fingers and thumbs of their own.

Name the three-letter word that can complete the below words?

A) L O _ _ _ E
B) E D U _ _ _ E
C) _ _ _ E R
D) _ _ _ T L E

I went to the bookshop and spent one-half of the money that was in my purse.

When I came out, I found that I had as many cents as I had dollars and half as many dollars as I had cents when I went in. Find the money in my purse when I entered the store.

What does a man do only once in his lifetime, but women do once a year after they are 29?

Count the number of triangles in the given picture.

Aaron, Brad, Christopher, Danny and Elvis decided to play a game of tiddlywinks. In this game they decided that one win will get 1 point for winning, 0 for losing and 1/2 in case of a tie.

They finished the game in alphabetical order and it was found that the scores were different for each person.

Based on the following two statements, can you find out the result of the individual games?
Brad: No one could finish like me, without a loss.
Elvis: No one played worse than me, I finished without a single win.

I know a nine-letter word having only one vowel.
Do you ?