What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?

Divide 110 into two parts so that one will be 150 per cent of the other. What are the 2 numbers?

What is next number in the pattern below:

131 517 192 123 ?

Yesterday I fell from 30 feet high ladder but I don't get hurt. Why?

A bomb exploded in a room full of married couples and no one died. How?

John went to a parrot shop in Mexico, and the parrot owner told him that his parrot is so unique that he repeats everything he hears. John got excited and immediately bought the parrot. John went home and spoke many words, but the parrot does not repeat anything.
He went again to the parrot shop and complaint to the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper never lied. Explain?

What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?

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?

Prove that twice of ten is the same as twice of eleven.

I was speeding and ran through a stop sign, yet two traffic officers who were there do nothing about it.

why?