Can you replace the question mark with the correct number in the below table sequence?

If two's company, and three's a crowd, then whats four and five ?

A worker is to perform work for you for seven straight days. In return for his work, you will pay him 1/7th of a bar of gold per day. The worker requires a daily payment of 1/7th of the bar of gold. What and where are the fewest number of cuts to the bar of gold that will allow you to pay him 1/7th each day?

You can see three almost identical images below. Can you spot the odd one out from them?

Detective John was investigating a murder in China.
It was a difficult case, and John was completely stumped until he noticed a message sent to him by the killer cunningly hidden in a newspaper advertisement selling Car Licence Plates.
Detective John thought about it for a while, and when he had solved the puzzle, immediately arrested the guilty man.

Q1) How did John know the advert was a clue for him?

Q2) Solve the code and tell me who John arrested.

This is the newspaper advert (Car licence plates for sale) that Detective John saw.

Plates For Sale;

[W 05 NWO]
[H 13 HSR]
[O 05 EBM]
[D 08 UNE]
[U 10 HTY]
[N 04 BRE]
[N 16 TTE]
[I 26 LHC]
[T 10 AEE]
[I 26 CNA]
[X 22 VDA]

Next Number in the Series,

5, 16, 49, 104, ?

There are 2 people near the river and both of them want to get on the other side. The boat can only take one of them. But they got across.
How?

Identify Me

Hint1: I am a god
Hint 2: I am a planet
Hint 3: measurer of heat

Irene killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?

what does this picture(rebus) riddle means ?