Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?

What number comes next in the series?

5 15 5 18 5 24 14 20 _

The first box has two white balls. The second box has two black balls. The third box has a white and a black ball.

Boxes are labeled but all labels are wrong!

You are allowed to open one box, pick one ball at random, see its colour and put it back into the box, without seeing the colour of the other ball.

How many such operations are necessary to correctly label the boxes?

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?

Analyze and find the missing item in the sequence:
16, 06, 68, 88, __, 98

I welcome the day with a show of light, I stealthily came here in the night. I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn, But by noon, alas! I'm gone.

The day before yesterday I was 25 and the next year I will be 28. This is true only one day in a year. What day is my birthday?

Which part of London exists in France as well ?

There was a blind man. He had four socks in his drawer either black or white. He opened it and took out two socks. Now the probability that it was a pair of white socks is 1/2.

Can you find out the probability that he had taken out a pair of black socks ?

What is the difference between a jeweller and a jailer?