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

You can take four of the five letters out of this word, but the pronunciation never changes. What is the word?

Replace all '*' with digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to make below statement true.

* *
x *
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* * *

What are the next two letters in the following series and why?
W A T N T L I T F S _ _

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If 1+9+8=1, what is 2+8+9?

Can you arrange four 9's and use at most 2 math symbols, to make the total 100?

What has a ring but no finger?

Sweet & very intelligent katty has 8 puppets(Jane Bird Barbie Angel Colleen Nora Lass Missy).
All puppets are of different size. She arrange all puppets to face towards the guest and tell the guess the following clues :

* Jane has three puppets bigger on its left side
* Bird has two puppets smaller on its left side
* Barbie has one puppet bigger on its right side
* Angel has two puppets smaller on its right side
* Colleen has one puppet bigger on its left side
* Nora has one puppet smaller on its left side
* Lass has four puppets bigger on its right side
* Missy has three puppets smaller on its right side

Also some puppets are inside the bigger puppets.

Assuming you are the guest , can you tell the katty how the puppets are arranged ?

How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550 ?

A finger goes in me. You fiddle with me when you're bored. The best man always has me first. What am I?