What is full of holes but still holds water?

You are playing as white and given four rooks to checkmate the black king in four moves with the following rules 1. You can place one rook every move and ensure the black king should be in check position.2. After four moves the black king should be in the checkmate position.

In particular commonwealth games, a female participant won silver and gold medals for a single event.

How can this be possible?

John went to meet his friend Jacob, but when he was about to reach the main gate, John notices that Jacob had a mighty dog who was fastened to the tree. The chain is long enough that it allows the dog to reach the main gate.

How can the John reach the main gate?

What has one eye, but can’t see?

There are two guys standing face to face in a room. On a wall, there is a clock. One of those is a prophet. He tells the other guy that he will be stabbed in the back in five minutes.

Shocked to hear that, the other guy stares at the clock. Just after the five minutes, he is stabbed on the back. Can you tell what happened?

Two batsman each on 94 runs. Seven runs needed to win in last 3 balls. Both make 100*. How?

Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Bill actually have?

A gardener planted the Lemon trees in a mathematical ordered way (i.e. he planted a tree in rows).
He created a total of 19 rows of trees.

Note: There should be more than 2 trees to count as a row.

What is the minimum number of trees required by the gardener to have 19 rows of trees?

A patient was diagnosed with some ailment. He was given five different tablets to take at night at an interval of 15 minutes.

How long will it take the patient to consume all the five tablets?