I have eight fingers and two thumbs but I do not live. What Am I?

I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?

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Like you see, some letters have gone missing from these words that contain the IE pair at some or the other place. The letters that will be used to fill the blanks are given below. Use them and form meaningful words. Can you do that?

A, C, D, F, H, K, L, M, N, N, O, R, R, S, S, S, T, T, Y and Y.

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

If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left?

A bus driver was heading down a street in Mexico. 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 left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?

A plane crashed between the border of Mexico and America. Where do you bury the survivors?

f you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

Can you solve the tricky chess rebus puzzle below by ciphering the hidden meaning?

By using 'because' continuously three times, can you make an English statement ?