You have an empty wine bottle with a cork that has been secured at the top in a normal way. There is a metal ring inside the bottle that is suspended by a string.

How can you make the metal ring drop to the bottom if you are not allowed to touch anything - not the bottle, not the cork, not the thread and not the ring?

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth, I am dissolved into air. What am I?

You order chicken wings at KFC in the boxes of 6, 9 and 20. What is the largest number of wings that you cannot obtain by buying in any combination of the boxes?

Can you replace the question mark with the correct number?

In a rainy season, one day 3 huge ladies walked under a normal-sized umbrella.
The umbrella is not huge enough to accommodate all 3 ladies yet not a single lady got wet. Why?

Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000?

What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?

What is the next number?

77, 49, 36, 18 ?

I was speeding and ran through a stop sign, yet two traffic officers who were there do nothing about it.

why?

I am a white box having no key or lid.
Yet there is a golden treasure inside it.

What Am I?