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

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

The captain of a ship was telling this interesting story: "We travelled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly." How can that be possible?

What number does the below three word/phrase identify and why?
1. Deck
2. Year
3. Singing in the Rain

The more you take me, the more you leave me behind.
Who Am I?

I hide my treasure in the ground, my tail is big and fluffy. If you spot me in a tree, please don’t call me scruffy. What am I?

You have two strings whose only known property is that when you light one end of either string it takes exactly one hour to burn. The rate at which the strings will burn is completely random and each string is different.

How do you measure 45 minutes?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

You are in a room with no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet.
How can you identify which one is a magnet?

What does it mean?