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.

You have to put a letter on the following to make it a meaningful word. The only challenge is that you can't use 'E'.

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John named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third Charlie and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son's name?

Yesterday I fell from 30 feet high ladder but I don't get hurt. Why?

Assume there are approximately 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) people on Earth. What would you estimate to be the result, if you multiply together the number of fingers on every person's left hand? (For the purposes of this exercise, thumbs count as fingers, for five fingers per hand.) If you cannot estimate the number then try to guess how long the number would be.

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

why?

How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?

Can you circle exactly four of these numbers such that the total is twelve?

1 6 1
6 1 6
1 6 1
6 1 6

A Car driver was heading down a street in Washington. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a 'no left turn' sign and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the right side of the road past a cop car. Still, he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?

What occurs twice in a week, once in a year but never in a day?