How many pluses should we put between the digits of 987654321 to get a total of 99, and where?

There are two guys standing face to face in a room. On a wall, there is a clock. One of those is a prophet. He tells the other guy that he will be stabbed in the back in five minutes.

Shocked to hear that, the other guy stares at the clock. Just after the five minutes, he is stabbed on the back. Can you tell what happened?

Why did the Girl throw the butter out of the window?

Jack was having a candle light dinner with his girlfriend. Suddenly a cold gush of wind entered through the open window and three of the ten candles were extinguished. Assuming that none of the other candles were extinguished.

How many candles are they left with in the end ?

Can you find the missing letter in the sequence?
S - T - I - L - ? - T - F - Y - C

Replace the question mark with the number below given a simple math problem.

Which three-digit number, made of consecutive digits, like 567, is 2 less than a cube and 2 more than a square?

There are forty elephants and they have forty-fore heads. How can this be possible?

In a competitive exam, each correct answer could win you 10 points and each wrong answer could lose you 5 points. You sat in the exam and answered all the 20 questions, which were given in the exam.
When you checked the result, you scored 125 marks on the test.

Can you calculate how many answers given by you were wrong?

There is a number which when you multiply by 3 and subtract 2 from the result, then the resulting number is the reverse of the actual number.

What is the smallest number that stands true on the statement?