How can you make a TV, a bed, a dog, and a car liquid?

What is next number in the pattern below:

131 517 192 123 ?

Can you count the number of triangles in the given figure?

I start and end with 500 and carry a 5 in my heart. But I require the first letter and the first number to be complete. I am the name of a King.

Who am I ?

Aaron, Brad, Christopher, Danny and Elvis decided to play a game of tiddlywinks. In this game they decided that one win will get 1 point for winning, 0 for losing and 1/2 in case of a tie.

They finished the game in alphabetical order and it was found that the scores were different for each person.

Based on the following two statements, can you find out the result of the individual games?
Brad: No one could finish like me, without a loss.
Elvis: No one played worse than me, I finished without a single win.

You’re out on the water and see a boat filled with people. You look away for a second and look back again, but this time you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why? Hint: The boat did not sink.

A pond had 60 fish, out of which, all but 20 died.
How many fishes are now present in that pond?

Trying to tease Birbal, Akbar gave him one gold coin and ask him to buy
* something for him to eat
* something for him to drink.
* something to feed the cows
* something to plant in the garden
and most important you need to buy only one thing.

What must Birbal buy to silence Akbar?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

How will you measure 15 minutes using two hourglasses of 7 minutes and 11 minutes respectively?