I am quite hot but become too cold if you remove the first two letters. What am I?

Alex is stranded on an island covered in forest.
One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process.

There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off.

How can the Alex survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)

You have two bottles of pills marked with labels A and B. The pills are identical. The doctor has asked you to take one A pill and one B pill daily. You cant take more or less than that.

While taking out the pills one day, you took out one pill from A and by mistake took out two from B. You have no idea which pill is which now.

You cant throw away the expensive pills. What will you do now?

Why do we preferably have round manhole covers and not square ones?

Katniss and Peeta are liars. They both lie on some specific days.

Katniss lies on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. She speaks the truth on all other days.

Peeta lies on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. He speaks the truth on all other days.

Can you tell that one day of the week when both of them will say "Tomorrow, I will lie."?

Can you find out the smallest number that can be conveyed as the sum of three squares in three unique ways?

I am a five-letter word under you,
Remove the first letter and I am above you,
Remove the second as well and I am around you.

Who am I?

An office is divided into 8 cubicles. How many of the cubicles are painted if only 1/8 of the cubicles are painted?

I am never scared but became petrified and can’t live in a house but would die to make one. What am I?

What's the next in the series?

H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, In, Gd, Tl, ?