What word does this rebus represent?

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John named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third Charlie and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son's name?

Move three sticks of the spiral below to form a square.

I have a hole in my back and legs I lack.
I live where I can’t breathe and I eat without teeth.
What am I?

Two guards were on duty outside a barracks. One faced up the road to watch for anyone approaching from the North. The other looked down the road to see if anyone approached from the South. Suddenly one of them said to the other, "Why are you smiling?"

How did he know his companion was smiling?

Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?

Birbal was jester, counsellor, and fool to the great Moghul emperor, Akbar.
The villagers loved to talk of Birbal's wisdom and cleverness,
and the emperor loved to try to outsmart him.
One day Akbar (emperor) drew a line across the floor.
"Birbal," he ordered, "you must make this line shorter, but you cannot erase any bit of it."
Everyone present thought the emperor had finally outsmarted Birbal.
It was clearly an impossible task.
Yet within moments the emperor and everyone else present had to agree that Birbal had made the line shorter without erasing any of it.
How could this be?

What Adam and Eve do not have but the rest of the people have?

f you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?