What has hands, but can’t clap?

You have two buckets - one holds exactly 5 gallons and the other 3 gallons. How can you measure 4 gallons of water into the 5 gallon bucket?

(Assume you have an unlimited supply of water and that there are no measurement markings of any kind on the buckets.)

A detective visits his friend John just to discover that John's neighbour Dr Jacob was murdered. Dr Jacob, who is a mathematician wrote the murderer's name in a code word "Hcqtfz". There were five suspects
1. Ajit
2. Pankaj
3. Ganpat
4. Deenu
5. Hariya

The Detective was instantly able to find the murderer.
Can you?

Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch?

The barber of Town shaves all men living in the town. No man living in the town is allowed to shave himself. The barber lives in that town. Who then shaves the barber of the town?

Can you find the company name in the pictogram below?

Which three-digit number, made of consecutive digits, like 567, is 2 less than a cube and 2 more than a square?

Can you count the number of seconds in a year?

Clue: You need to bother about calculation.

After teaching his class all about Roman numerals (X = 10, IX=9 and so on) the teacher asked his class to draw a single continuous line and turn IX into 6. The teacher's only stipulation was that the pen could not be lifted from the paper until the line was complete.

Which word is least like the others? Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth?