What is harder to catch the faster you run?

A monk has a very specific ritual for climbing up the steps to the temple. First, he climbs up to the middle step and meditates for 1 minute. Then he climbs up 8 steps and faces east until he hears a bird singing. Then he walks down 12 steps and picks up a pebble. He takes one step up and tosses the pebble over his left shoulder. Now, he walks up the remaining steps three at a time which only takes him 9 paces. How many steps are there?

In the four images below, can you find the odd one out?

What does this rebus means ?

PROG WORKRESS

There is a wide field of corn. A goose finds its way into the field and starts running. Can you find out till which point the goose can run into the field?

The product of three consecutive numbers is 7980.
Then the sum of these consecutive numbers would be?

How is a fly different from a mosquito?

Once while in his court, King Akbar asked Birbal to write something on a wall that makes one sad when read in good times and makes one happy when read in sad times.

He took only a few moment and wrote something that fit the requirements. What did he write?

A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.

Who am I?

There is a straight highway. Four different villages lie on that highway. The distance between them is different. The third village is 60km away from the first village; the fourth is 40 km away from the second; the third is 10 km near to the fourth that it is to the second.

Can you calculate the distance between the fourth and the first village ?