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

I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I?

How many words can a pen with half refill write?

What word does this rebus represent?

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I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

Can you count the number of squares in the figure below?

What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?

You have two buckets of 11 liters and 6 litres.
How can you measure exactly 8 litres?

These types of puzzles are known as charades. What you have to do is find two words that are referred to in the first stanza and the second stanza and put them together to form the third word in the third stanza.

Just for example, if my first refers to 'off' and my second refers to 'ice', then my whole will be office.

My first is present - future's past -
A time in which your lot is cast.

My second is my first of space
Defining people's present place.

My whole describes a lack of site -
A place without length, breadth, or height.

Jim has three close friends at his school: Michael, John and Alice. Two of them play football, two play basketball and two play hockey. The friend who does not play hockey does not play basketball as well. The friend who does not play football does not play hockey.

Can you identify which sport/s is played by which person?