Can you place six X (crosses) in below board without making three in a row in any way ?

I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?

What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; That which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?

Today is a very icy and cold morning in Newcastle. Mr Shearer, an office bus driver arrived to pick up the employees from the last stop. Shearer suddenly remembers that he needs to pick a newly joined 4miles to the north. Mr Shearer lost his direction compass, a few minutes later Shearer is able to figure that he is moving in the correct direction i.e. north. How did Shearer know that he is moving in the correct direction?

John and Jill are madly in love with each other. To remind Jill of his pure love, John wants to send her a ring by post but in their country where burglary is quite prominent, any package that is not locked comes under the risk of being stolen for the contents.

John and Jill possess many padlocks but neither one of them has the other key.

Can you find a way John can send the ring to Jill safely?

Find the number of squares in the below picture

Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

What's a single-digit number with no value?

I look at you, you look at me I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?