Can you name some countries which do not have the alphabet 'A' in them?

Replace the question mark with the number below given a simple math problem.

Eight of us go fourth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we?

What is the next number in this matchsticks series riddle?

Daniel walks into a movie theatre. While in the movie, he suddenly smiles delightfully. About a couple of minutes later, he seems shocked. He walks out of the theatre, goes to a bridge and jumps over the edge killing himself.

Why did he do it?

Note: Think Lateral

A girl was sitting in her hotel room when she heard a knock on the door. She opened the door and found that a man was standing outside. The man said, "Oh! I am really sorry, I thought this was my room." He then walked through the corridor to the elevator. The girl did not know the man. She closed her door and called security asking them to apprehend the man. What made her suspicious of that man? He might have been genuinely mistaken.

The Puzzle: Here is a famous prize problem that Sam Loyd issued in 1882, offering $1000 as a prize for the best answer showing how to arrange the seven figures and the eight 'dots' .4.5.6.7.8.9.0. which would add up to 82

Can you find out what is missing?

1 3 5
2 4 ?

Hint: It's not six. Think out of the box.

I went to the bookshop and spent one-half of the money that was in my purse.

When I came out, I found that I had as many cents as I had dollars and half as many dollars as I had cents when I went in. Find the money in my purse when I entered the store.

You are on your way to visit your Friend, who lives at the end of the hill. It is his birthday, and you want to give him the cakes you have made. Between your house and his house, you have to cross 5 bridges, and as it goes in the land of make believe, there is a troll under every bridge! Each troll, quite rightly, insists that you pay a troll toll. Before you can cross their bridge, you have to give them half of the cakes you are carrying, but as they are kind trolls, they each give you back a single cake. How many cakes do you have to leave home to make sure that you arrive at a friend's house with exactly two