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

If we add four times the age of John four years from now to five times his age five years from now we get ten times his current age.

How old will John be two years from now?

Distances from you to certain cities are written below.

BERLIN 200 miles

PARIS 300 miles

ROME 400 milesAMSTERDAM 300 miles

CARDIFF ??? miles

How far should it be to Cardiff ?

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

It spends most of its day eating white, but when it’s quick enough, it gets to eat fruit and sometimes some blue things. It’s in a dark room, where the walls are blue, it runs from a ghost that roams the halls and haunts it all the time. What is it?

I am written with two letters.
I said with the one.
I usually am seen with the two.

Who am I?

Can you solve the tricky chess rebus puzzle below by ciphering the hidden meaning?

Do you know of a place where the wind blows south and then suddenly shifts direction towards the north?

A man was going to bleach his socks because they had gotten muddy the day before. As he was pouring the bleach into the washing machine, he spilt some on the floor. He got some cleaning fluid and mopped it up with a rag. Minutes later he was dead. What killed him?

Baseball bat and ball cost $100. If the bat cost $99 more than the ball, what is the cost of each?