Detective John was investigating a murder in China.
It was a difficult case, and John was completely stumped until he noticed a message sent to him by the killer cunningly hidden in a newspaper advertisement selling Car Licence Plates.
Detective John thought about it for a while, and when he had solved the puzzle, immediately arrested the guilty man.

Q1) How did John know the advert was a clue for him?

Q2) Solve the code and tell me who John arrested.

This is the newspaper advert (Car licence plates for sale) that Detective John saw.

Plates For Sale;

[W 05 NWO]
[H 13 HSR]
[O 05 EBM]
[D 08 UNE]
[U 10 HTY]
[N 04 BRE]
[N 16 TTE]
[I 26 LHC]
[T 10 AEE]
[I 26 CNA]
[X 22 VDA]

If I put in one bird per cage, I have one bird too many. If I put in two bird per cage, I have one cage too many. How many cages and birds do I have?

I look flat, but I am deep. Hidden realms I shelter. Lives I take, but the food I offer. At times I am beautiful. I can be calm, angry, and turbulent. I have no heart but offer pleasure as well as death. No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have. What am I?

Solve the equation by replacing the alphabet with numbers.

MOM + MOM + NO = BOOK=

Until it is measured, not known. Yet how you miss it when it has gone. What is it?

What is red and smells like blue paint?

What number comes next in the series?

5 15 5 18 5 24 14 20 _

If in a car race, the man who came two places in front of the last man finished one ahead of the man who came fifth, how many contestants were there?

You need to arrange three 7 and mathematical symbols to form number 1?

Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the circles in a manner that each side of the triangle sums up to 17.