What goes up but never comes down?

There are a number of books on a shelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?

Write the next letter in this sequence.
O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, __
**Hint: It is a Number Series Puzzle

James bond was pushed out of an aeroplane without any parachute.
He survived, How come?

I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am NOT a gossip but I do get involved with everyone's dirty business.

Two guards were on duty outside a barracks. One faced up the road to watch for anyone approaching from the North. The other looked down the road to see if anyone approached from the South. Suddenly one of them said to the other, "Why are you smiling?"

How did he know his companion was smiling?

It has a long neck, A name of a bird, Feeds on cargo of ships, It's not alive,

What is it?

Find the smallest sentence with all the English alphabet.

No one wants to have it, but if one got it, he does not want to lose it. What is It?

Two brothers were watching a horror film on video late one night. One brother dozed off and dreamed that he was being chased by the crazy man from the movie, who was trying to kill him. In the dream, he hid in a cupboard. There was no sound except his heart pounding, and he had no idea where his crazed captor was. He was terrified! At that moment, the video finished, and his brother put his hand on the shoulder of his sleeping sibling to wake him. The shock at that tense moment was enough that the sleeping brother suffered a massive heart attack and died instantly. True or false?