If an earthquake is 1 point higher on the Richter Scale than another earthquake which is actually 10 times stronger, how much stronger would an earthquake be if it was just half a point higher on the Richter scale?

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 man died and leaves Rs.10,000 in his will. There are 6 beneficiaries- his 3 sons and their wives. The 3 wives receive Rs.3960 of which Priyanka gets Rs.100 more than Tanu and Neha gets Rs.100 more than Priyanka.
Pramod gets twice as much as his wife, Tushar gets the same as his wife, and Prashant gets 50% more than his wife.

Who is married to whom?

A man says, "Brothers and sisters, have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is that man?

What comes
Once in a Year
Twice in a Month
4 times in a Week
6 times in a Day

What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?

A word I know,
Six letters contain,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.

I have two coins.
* One of the coins is a faulty coin having a tail on both sides of it.
* The other coin is a perfect coin (heads on side and tail on other).

I blindfold myself and pick a coin and put the coin on the table. The face of the coin towards the sky is the tail.

What is the probability that another side is also tail?

How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it?

You can take four of the five letters out of this word, but the pronunciation never changes. What is the word?