2, 3, 5, 9, 17, _ What is the next number in the sequence?

Tell me the Hindi name of a Vegetable which if we remove 1st word will become a precious Stone and by removing the last word it will become a sweet eatable.

Today, I celebrated my 32nd birthday but I was born in 1972.
How is this possible?

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

Decode below three cipher riddles:

26 L of the A
7 D of the W
1000 Y in a M

You want to boil a two-minute egg. If you only have a three-minute timer (hourglass), a four-minute timer and a five-minute timer, how can you boil the egg for only two minutes?

how come the second man dies?

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

We are a group of eight brothers. We consider the weak, yet we protect the king in every battle. If we move ahead, we never turn back. Who are we?

Is the statement valid that it does not matter how much older a sibling is, eventually the younger one will be half as old as the older one?