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

You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.
Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?

What number do you get when you multiply all of the numbers on a telephone's number pad?

As we know that white starts the game of chess. Can you find the scenario shown in the picture below is possible when all the white pieces are at the original place while the black pawn is not as in the below picture?

A train leaves from point A for point B at 80 mph. After half an hour, another train leaves from point B for point A at 60 mph.

Which of the trains will be farther from point A when they meet ?

What is common among 11, 69, and 88?

A deaf and mute man goes to the train station. Tickets for the train are 50 cents each. The man goes to the ticket booth and hands the man inside just a dollar. The man in the booth hands him two tickets.

How did the man in the booth know to give him two tickets without even looking at him?

There was an aeroplane crash, every single person died, but two people survived. How is this possible?

In a football game, Christina defeated Teresa by 2 - 0 but no man from either side scored. How can this be possible?

Take away the whole and some still remain. What is it?