Find the Next Number in the Sequence

2 9 3 1 8 4 3 6 5 7 ?

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.

A woman shoots her husband.

Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes.

Finally, she hangs him.

But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together.

How can this be?

Find the number of squares in the below picture

1 + 9 + 8 = ?
considering, 28 + 8 + 92 = 10

Solve the equation by replacing the alphabet with numbers.

MOM + MOM + NO = BOOK=

What is the word or phrase?

Out of three Friends John, Jacob and Jonny one of them is a king, one is a bureaucrat, and one is a Spy.

The king always tells the truth, the bureaucrat always lies, and the Spy can either lie or tell the truth.

John says: Jonny is a bureaucrat
Jacob says: John is a king
Jonny says: I am a Spy

Tell me, Who is the king, who is the bureaucrat, and who is the Spy?

Can you make four (4) nines (9) equal 100?

When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?