It has a long neck, A name of a bird, Feeds on cargo of ships, It's not alive,

What is it?

In particular commonwealth games, a female participant won silver and gold medals for a single event.

How can this be possible?

What do you think with the below Picture ?

If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door?

Three men in a cafe order a meal the total cost of which is $15. They each contribute $5. The waiter takes the money to the chef who recognises the three as friends and asks the waiter to return $5 to the men.

The waiter is not only poor at mathematics but dishonest and instead of going to the trouble of splitting the $5 between the three he simply gives them $1 each and pockets the remaining $2 for himself.

Now, each of the men effectively paid $4, the total paid is therefore $12. Add the $2 in the waiters pocket and this comes to $14. Where has the other $1 gone from the original $15?

How can you write nineteen in a manner that if we take out one, it becomes twenty?

Railroad Crossing, look out for the cars. Can you spell that, without any R's ?

What is the relationship between these matchstick pictures below?

John, Jack and Jill are in a desert. John doesn't like Jill and hence decides to murder him. He poisons the water supply of Jill. Since it is a desert area, Jill must drink or he will die of thirst.

Jack does not know of the actions of John and also decides to murder Jill. To succeed in his ill motives, he removes the water supply of Jill so he dies of thirst.

Jill dies due to thirst. Who murdered Jill?

You are in a room with no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet.
How can you identify which one is a magnet?