What is more useful when it is broken?

Steffi's daughter Jazelle needs to be picked up from school every day.
Steffi asks one of her colleagues to pick up Jazelle from the school. Steffi devised a password system to confirm that Jazelle goes with the correct colleague only.

The password on Monday was SJM16.
The password on Wednesday was TAW39.

What will the password be for Friday?

Irene killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?

What is red and smells like blue paint?

Akbar summoned Birbal out of anger.
He told him that he will have to face death.
He asked him to make a statement and if the statement is true he will be buried alive and if the statement is false, he will be thrown at lions.
After hearing Birbal’s statement, Akbar could do nothing but smile.
He gave him 5 gold bars and let him go.

What did Birbal say?

Complete the series by replacing "?" with the correct number.

ST ND RD TH '?'

Which is Odd One Out and why?

4377

3954

9862

8454

9831

How high do you have to count before you use the letter “a” in the English spelling of the whole number?

A non-stop marathon is the shared favourite sport of three brothers.

*The oldest one is fat and short and trudges slowly on.
*The middle brother's tall and slim and keeps a steady pace.
*The youngest runs just like the wind, speeding through the race.

"He is young in years, we let him run!" the other two brothers explained, "'because though he is surely number one, he is second, in a way." Why is it?

How will you measure 15 minutes using two hourglasses of 7 minutes and 11 minutes respectively?