If in a car race, the man who came two places in front of the last man finished one ahead of the man who came fifth, how many contestants were there?

What is greater than gold but cannot be bought. it can never be sold and can earn if its sought. though it can be broken, it can still be fixed. for by birth it can't start nor by death it is ended.what am i?

One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number.
What is the pattern?

What comes
Once in a Year
Twice in a Month
4 times in a Week
6 times in a Day

By moving just one matchstick, you need to make the below statement true. Can you do it?

A boy and a girl are sitting on the porch.
"I'm a boy," says the child with black hair.
"I'm a girl," says the child with red hair.
If at least one of them is lying, who is which?

Can you convert the number zero(0) into a positive number using just one mathematical operator ?

Luis Garavito killed Density x Volume.

Who is Luis Garavito ?

1. How can we put an elephant in the refrigerator?
2. How can we put a Giraffe in a refrigerator?
3. The king of the jungle invites all the animals to a party everyone comes except for one animal, which animal?
4. You come to a crocodile-infested lake, you can't go around it, you can't co under it and you can't go over it, how do you get across?

Once while in his court, King Akbar asked Birbal to write something on a wall that makes one sad when read in good times and makes one happy when read in sad times.

He took only a few moment and wrote something that fit the requirements. What did he write?