What is the largest amount of money that you can possess in change and still if someone asks you for a dollar, you won't be able to give?

When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?

Eight Chelsea player makes the following statements :

1. Seven of us are lying here.
2. Six of us are lying here.
3. Five of us are lying here.
4. Five of us are lying here.
5. Four of us are lying here.
6. Three of us are lying here.
7. My name is Torres.
8. My name is Lampard.

The last two are Lampard and Torres or maybe Torres and Lampard.
So can you deduce which of the last two is Lampard or Torres?

I know a country, If you remove the last alphabet of its name, it will become a part of your body. Do you name it?

You have three orange, two pink and five purple balls in the drawer beside your bed. There is no electricity and the room is entirely dark. How many balls must you take out to ensure at least one ball of each colour at least?

Until it is measured, not known. Yet how you miss it when it has gone. What is it?

Can you replace the question mark with the correct number?

Can you find the missing number in the third row?
35 20 14
27 12 18
5 2 ?

If nine thousand, nine hundred nine dollars is written as $9,909,
how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred twelve dollars be written?

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?