Can you identify the hidden rebus in the image below?

Replace the question mark in the picture below.

Find the next number in the series

12, 20, 40, 72, 116, 172 ?

These types of puzzles are known as charades. What you have to do is to find two words that are referred to in the first stanza and the second stanza and put them together to form the third word in the third stanza.

Just for example, if my first refers to 'off' and my second refers to 'ice', then my whole will be the 'office'.

My first is present - future's past -
A time in which your lot is cast.

My second is my first of space
Defining people's present place.

My whole describes a lack of site -
A place without length, breadth, or height.

Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch?

Using the clues below, what four numbers am I thinking of?

The sum of all the numbers is 31.
One number is odd.
The highest number minus the lowest number is 7.
If you subtract the middle two numbers, it equals two.
There are no duplicate numbers.

John buys rice at Rs.60/kg from Britain and then sells them at Rs.5/kg in India. As a result of this, he becomes a millionaire. How come?

Two-person want to cross a river. Only one boat is present on the riverside that can carry only one person at a time.

However, they still manage to cross the river. How is it possible?

Bea Smith, Vera Bennett, Franky Doyle and Doreen Anderson were in Wentworth Prison for murder. But their behaviour in the jails is appreciated by the warden and the warden decided to give all these 4 prisoners 11 cupcakes. They all like cupcakes and they had all cupcakes in no matter of time but they do not know how many cupcakes each individual had. Therefore Bea started the conversation Bea: "Hey T-Vera, did you have more cupcakes than I had ?"Vera: "I do not know girl, Hey Franky, did you have more cupcakes than I had ?".Franky: "I do not know"Doreen replied instantly: "I know how exactly how many cupcakes each of you had?" So can you tell how many cupcakes each of them had?

All of you like to eat me. I am a five-lettered word. Remove the first two and I turn into an infamous animal. Remove just the first and I become a heinous crime. Remove the first and the last and you can groove on me.

Can you guess who am I?