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.

A man is found unconscious in front of a store at two in the morning. His head is bleeding and there’s a brick laying next to him. When the police arrive, they carry the man to jail. Why did they arrest him?

Can you find the missing letter in the sequence?
S - T - I - L - ? - T - F - Y - C

It begins where the time ends.
Its second is an expression of surprise.
Its third is a question.
Its fourth is urinate.
It ends with a drink.

Which country it is?

If we change the South-East direction into North and North-East into West and all others similarly.
Can you find out which direction will be in the place of South-West direction?

Manish and Manoj play 5 games of chess.
Both Manish and Manoj win the exact same number of games. There is no tie at all.

How?

John replied, when asked how old he was. In 2 years he will be twice as old as he was five years ago.' How old is he ?

There are forty elephants and they have forty-fore heads. How can this be possible?

What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?

It's a protector.
It sits on a bridge.
One individual can see directly through it, while others wonder what it hides.

What is it?