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

An octopus has 8 legs. A hippogriff has 6 legs and 2 pairs of wings. A sphinx has 6 legs and one pair of wings. Now we have all 3 kinds and a total of 18 insects in a cage. We have a total of 118 legs and 20 pairs of wings. How many insects do we have of each kind?

John’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?

John has played 50 ODI's and his average is 50. How many runs should he score in his 51st ODI, so that his average score jumps to 51?

A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?

Count The number of F's in the paragraph below:

"FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS"

Why Wine Glass Stem is so long?

In my garden, I have many trees but only one of them is the mango tree. In these mango trees, there are some mangoes(as expected).

But after a strong wind, there are neither mangoes on the tree nor on the ground. Explain?

I am looking for a word that change both gender and number when i add the letter 'S'.

What Word am I Looking For ?

You need to pick one entry from pot A and one from pot B to have a perfect match. Can you do it?