Can you count the number of quadrilaterals in the picture below?

In the attached figure, you can see a chessboard and two rooks placed on the chess board. What you have to find is the number of squares that do not contain the rooks. How many are there?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

I got a bee but no honey.
got an eye but am still blind.
got a sea but no water.
got a tea but no coffee.
got a why but no answer.

What Am I?

Two friends Smith and Andrew were talking about the bravery of their families. Smith told great stories about his courageous grandfather who fought for Britain in "World War I". Andrew told that his grandfather was so brave that in 1919 just after the war he was honoured with a bravery medal with the words "For our Courageous Soldiers In World War I" embedded into it. Smith knows that his friend is lying. How?

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

I am quite hot but become too cold if you remove the first two letters. What am I?

It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?

What does a man do only once in his lifetime, but women do once a year after they are 29?

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?