How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?

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

Can you count the number of seconds in a year?

Clue: You need to bother about calculation.

Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.

What does a man do only once in his lifetime, but women do once a year after they are 29?

There is a box. The area of its top is 240 square units, the area of the front is 300 square units and the area of the end is 180 square units.

Can you calculate the dimensions of this box with the given data?

What you cannot hold but it is yours?

It can't be seen, can't be felt, can't be heard, and can't be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after, Ends life, and kills laughter.
What is it?

What does man love more than life, and hate more than death or mortal strife; that which satisfied men want; the poor have, and the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?

John and Jacob are twin brothers. One of them is a liar whereas the other one is a truth-teller.

I called their home number and one of them picked up.
I asked. 'Does John lie?' The person replied with a yes.

Whom did I talk with, John or Jacob?