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

What mathematical symbol can be put between 5 and 9, to get a number bigger than 5 and smaller than 9?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

"That Restaurant always remains crowded. This is the reason why nobody goes there".

Can you find a flaw in this statement?

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?

You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.
Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?

There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What colour are the stairs?

Yesterday I fell from 30 feet high ladder but I don't get hurt. Why?

After teaching his class all about Roman numerals (X = 10, IX=9 and so on) the teacher asked his class to draw a single continuous line and turn IX into 6. The teacher's only stipulation was that the pen could not be lifted from the paper until the line was complete.

There are are five things wrong with this sentence; only geniuses will be able to to spot all of the mitstakes