Its something that each of us devours,
Not just us but birds, beats, trees, and flowers,
Frets iron and nibbles steel,
Toil hard stones to meal,
Exterminates king, collapse town,
And blows the mountains down.

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

Spelt forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backwards I’m something you hate. What am I?

Find the next number in the series below

21 32 54 87 131 ?

John and Jenni are a married couple. They have two kids, one of them is a girl. Assume safely that the probability of each gender is 1/2.
What is the probability that the other kid is also a girl?

Hint: It is not 1/2 as you would first think.

In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10 years old. How can this be?

What brings you down but never up?

I am a prime number.
The double of myself is equal to the square of me.

which number am I?

John, Jack and Jill are in a desert. John doesn't like Jill and hence decides to murder him. He poisons the water supply of Jill. Since it is a desert area, Jill must drink or he will die of thirst.

Jack does not know of the actions of John and also decides to murder Jill. To succeed in his ill motives, he removes the water supply of Jill so he dies of thirst.

Jill dies due to thirst. Who murdered Jill?

Can you circle exactly four of these numbers such that the total is twelve?

1 6 1
6 1 6
1 6 1
6 1 6