Who is generally closer to the kids, mom or dad?

(it's a funny riddle)

That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant.

But the attorney testified he didn't have a brother.

Who is lying?

Can you count the number of squares in the given picture?

Which number should replace the question mark?

What is wrong in the below Picture?

Your last good ping-pong ball fell into a narrow metal pipe embedded one foot deep in concrete.
How can you get it out undamaged, if all the tools you have are your tennis paddle, shoe laces, and plastic water bottle, which does not fit into the pipe?

When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?

In The 1st month of this year(the year 2013), I noticed that the date 13-1-13 (13 January 2013) is special.

This date is special as:

Date * Month = Year.

Can you figure out which year of this century has a maximum number of such dates?

Find out which of the given views in the picture is accurately the top view of the given pyramid.

Sherlock breaks into a crime scene. The victim is the owner who is slumped dead on a chair and have a bullet hole in his head. A gun lies on the floor and a cassette recorder is found on the table. On pressing the play button, Sherlock hears the message 'I have committed sins in my life and now I offer my soul to the great Lord' and followed a gunshot Sherlock smiles and informed the police that's its a murder.

Why did he think so?