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?

The captain of a ship is telling you an interesting story and then poses a question. He says, “I have travelled the oceans far and wide. One time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly. Can you tell me how that was possible?”

Always in you, Sometimes on you;

If I surround you, I can kill you.

What am I?

What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?

Can you find the mistake in the below statement?

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?

Bopanna was working on a murder case when he received a message about the location of the murder weapon.
The message was encrypted as below.

"deb mitciv eht edisni neddih si nopaew redrum ehT"

Tell me the location of the murder weapon.

A spaceship was lost. The detective was given a piece of paper. This was the location of the spaceship! This is what the slip had scribbled on it:
Juice, Umbrella, Potato, Ice, Tomato, Elephant, Rice.

Where is the spaceship?

Replace the letters of words with a number so that the below equation holds true

BASE +
BALL
---------
GAMES
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The pound is not a finish.

We are sharing a few instructions below, which you have to use in any suitable order to modify the above sentence such that the end sentence is a scientific fact.

- Eliminate a letter and supplement another in its place.
- Take away one word.
- Remove one letter from one word.
- Get rid of two letters from one word.
- Swap a word with its antonym.