Can anyone tell me a word in the English dictionary which has a silent 'z'?

If you drop a 15 kg iron bar and a 5 kg bag of cotton from a height of 50 meters which will reach the ground first?

A California farmer owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner calls the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to buy. The farmer knows the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?

What type of curtain does this rebus mean

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?

Jenifer is learning to drive her car. She went down a one way lane and in the wrong direction. But she do not break any law.

How come ?

I throw two dice simultaneously.

What is the probability of getting a sum as 9 of the two numbers shown?

Can you count the number of squares in the given picture?

Find the number of squares in the below-given picture.

This is a classy optical illusion puzzle. What more you can find except bricks in the image below?