Can you make four (4) nines (9) equal 100?

A woman lives in a Tall building thirty-six floors high and served by several elevators which stop at each floor going up and down. Each morning she leaves her apartment and goes to one of the elevators. Whichever one she takes is three times more likely to be going up than down. Why?

A pond had 60 fish, out of which, all but 20 died.
How many fishes are now present in that pond?

Why did Navjot Singh Sidhu put the new January calendar in the freezer

Can you name an animal whose killing cannot be performed without spilling your own blood?

The following four words might seem abrupt to you. But you can make them meaningful by just adding vowels.
RDSH
GGPLNT
TMT
NN

Hint: All of them are vegetables.

There are two words one resembles the "state of rest" and the other is related to "writing/reading material".

Can you name these two words which also sound similar?

Take number 1000 and then add 20 to it.
Now add 1000 one more time.
Now add 30.
Now add 1000 one more time.
Now add 40.
Now add 1000 one more time.
Now add 10.

What is the total?

Below is the sum of symbols in each row and column in the figure. Analyzing the figure, can you find out the value of the symbols?

Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?