A Scientist was fifty years old in the year 2000 but he was forty years old in the year 2010. How can this be possible?

PS: It has a logical answer.

What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

What seven-letter word has hundreds of letters in it?

Replace the question mark in the picture below.

What is the below Rebus indicate?

I was speeding and ran through a stop sign, yet two traffic officers who were there do nothing about it.

why?

An old Woman left INR 33,333 to be divided equally among two fathers and two sons and each was to receive INR 11,111.
How was this possible?

I know a 5-digit number having a property that With a 1 after it, it is three times as large as it would be with a one before it.

Guess the number?

John drives to his office at 20km/hr. After reaching the office, he realizes that today is a holiday. He went back at an average speed of 30km/hr. Discounting the time spent in the stoppage what was the average speed of his journey?

People put me on the table and cut me but do not eat me. What am I?