Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Which word is least like the others? Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth?

What demands an answer, but asks no questions

You have 10 balls with you. A friend of yours out of nowhere asks you to place those ten balls in five lines such that each of the lines has exactly 4 balls on them. He needs to check your intelligence. Prove him by doing the task.

A man was going to bleach his socks because they had gotten muddy the day before. As he was pouring the bleach into the washing machine, he spilt some on the floor. He got some cleaning fluid and mopped it up with a rag. Minutes later he was dead. What killed him?

What does this mean?

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A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river.

He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing.
If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken.
If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn.

How does the man do it?

Who are the happiest people in IPL match?

James bond was pushed out of an aeroplane without any parachute.
He survived, How come?

What has a ring but no finger?