How many cubic feet of dirt are in a hole of one foot deep, three feet long, and two feet wide?

A detective visits his friend John just to discover that John's neighbour Dr Jacob was murdered. Dr Jacob, who is a mathematician wrote the murderer's name in a code word "Hcqtfz". There were five suspects
1. Ajit
2. Pankaj
3. Ganpat
4. Deenu
5. Hariya

The Detective was instantly able to find the murderer.
Can you?

Two men play a dice game involving roll of two standard dice. Man X says that a 12 will be rolled first. Man Y says that two consecutive 7s will be rolled first. The men keep rolling until one of them wins.

What is the probability that X will win ?

A man hijacks an aeroplane transporting both passengers(8 of them) and valuable cargo. After taking the cargo, the man demands nine parachutes, puts one of them on, and jumps, leaving the other eight behind. Why did he want eight?

A shepherd had 18 sheep, out of which, all but ten died.

Can you tell us how many sheep was he left with?

Why did the Girl throw the butter out of the window?

If you read clockwise, you can form a word by inserting three missing letters in the picture given below. Can you do it?

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

What work can one never finish?

My first is in chocolate but not in ham. My second is in cake and also in jam. My third at tea time is easily found. Altogether, this is a friend who is often around. What is it?