How many letters are in the alphabet?

When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?

What number should come in place of the question mark below?

When it's bad luck to meet a black cat?

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

What has one eye, but can’t see?

Which is the rope you never skip with?

The peacock is a bird that does not lay eggs. How do they get baby peacocks?

Outside a tattoo artist's shop, there was a signboard which read 'I make tattoos on only them who do not tattoo themselves'.

Reading it what do you think, does the tattoo artist tattoo himself?

A non-stop marathon is the shared favourite sport of three brothers.

*The oldest one is fat and short and trudges slowly on.
*The middle brother's tall and slim and keeps a steady pace.
*The youngest runs just like the wind, speeding through the race.

"He is young in years, we let him run!" the other two brothers explained, "'because though he is surely number one, he is second, in a way." Why is it?