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

What is it?

Can you think of a smallest +ve number such that if we shuffle the digits of the number, the new number becomes double the original number?

In a fruit store, there was a unique weighing machine that was made to weigh only cherries and strawberries as they were priced the same.

Other fruits like watermelons or mango had different machines as they were expensive.

A man successfully buys watermelons at the price of cherries. How?

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

Spot 5 differences in two Christmas tree below:

Can you solve this amazing hard number series problem?
7, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18 ?

John, a 5-year-old boy, was really fond of the chocolates. He asked his Mother to give him some money to buy his favourite chocolates. His Mother gave him $45. He went to the shopkeeper and asked, "How much is one chocolate for?". The shopkeeper said $3 for one chocolate. Also, if you give me the wrappers of three chocolates, I will give you one for the exchange.
In total, how much chocolate could John eat?

Usually, a boxing match consists of twelve rounds. In a particular friendly match between two heavyweights, the match was finished in the ninth round itself as one of the boxers knocked out the other one.

But, in that fight, no man threw even a single punch.

How can this be possible?

What is the word or phrase below?
R | E | A | D

You need to complete the maze by entering from the entrance marked below in the figure near the yellow circle, bottom left and leaving from the exit point near the green circle, bottom middle.

Rule of Game: You can move only by exchanging green and yellow circles.