Many have heard it, but nobody has ever seen it, and it will not speak back until spoken to. What is it?

A California farmer owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner calls the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to buy. The farmer knows the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?

Can anyone tell me a word in the English dictionary which has a silent 'z'?

Analyze and find the missing item in the sequence:
16, 06, 68, 88, __, 98

What will you call your mother's brother's brother-in-law?

Most people think of me as money. But when they find me in the water, they won’t get any money out of me. What am I?

If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?

In a kingdom, King George did not allow any citizen to visit the world outside. Also, only a person with proper paperwork was allowed to enter or he was sent back. A wooden bridge was what connected the kingdom to the world. The king had appointed a sharpshooter who would check the every five minutes on the bridge to check. After checking, he would go back to his hut and return exactly after five minutes again. The bridge took 9 minutes to cross.

A merchant was able to escape the kingdom without harming the shooter. How?

I am thinking of a five-digit number such that:
The first and last digits are the same, their submission is an even number and multiplication is an odd number and is equal to the fourth number. Subtract five from it and we obtain the second number. Then divide into exact halves and we get the 3rd number.

What number I am thinking of?

How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550 ?