Sherlock Holmes was challenged to make a pre-drawn line smaller without erasing it. He did it in fractions of seconds. How?

If nine thousand, nine hundred nine dollars is written as $9,909,
how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred twelve dollars be written?

Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?

Five thieves looted a bank and they ran away in a car. The bank staff informed the police and they began the search of their car in their jeep. They found them on a road and chased them eventually catching them. The light that is used to fill the number plate was broken on the thieves' car. Also, the headlights of the jeep police were not working. How were the police able to catch the thieves then?

Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men do ?

In particular commonwealth games, a female participant won silver and gold medals for a single event.

How can this be possible?

What is the word or phrase below?
R | E | A | D

What mathematical symbol can be put between 5 and 9, to get a number bigger than 5 and smaller than 9?

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

There is a bag which have 21 blue balls and 23 red balls. You also have 22 red balls outside the bag. Randomly remove two balls from the bag. * If they are of different colors, put the blue one back in the bag. * If they are the same colour, take them out and put a red ball back in the bag. Repeat this until only one ball remains in the bag. What is the color of the sole ball left in the bag ?