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

On a beautiful Sunday morning, You ordered a hot tea to your hotel room and suddenly you remember an important thing that needed to be done right now will take around 3 minutes to complete.
Like most people you like your tea to be hot while drinking so, when should you pour cream in the tea?
1. straight away
2. Just people, you drink the team
3. Its does not matter

What word does this rebus represent?

meta meta
meta meta

The horse jumps over the king.
Strangely there is absolutely no scratch on him.

Can anyone explain, how is this possible?

How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550 ?

Manish and Manoj play 5 games of chess.
Both Manish and Manoj win the exact same number of games. There is no tie at all.

How?

There are three light switches outside a room. One of the switches is connected to a light bulb inside the room.
Each of the three switches can be either 'ON' or 'OFF'.

You are allowed to set each switch the way you want it and then enter the room(note: you can enter the room only once)

Your task is to then determine which switch controls the bulb?

In the figure, you can see nine stars. What you have to do is connect all of them by using just four line and without lifting your hand i.e. in a continuous flow.

Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the circles in a manner that each side of the triangle sums up to 17.

If you read clockwise, you can form a word by inserting three missing letters in the picture given below. Can you do it?