What occurs twice in a week, once in a year but never in a day?

One night, Louis and Adam were sitting together. Adam was watching a movie while his wife Louis was reading a mystery book. Suddenly the power went out and Adam decided to go to bed, but strangely Louis kept on reading. There was no artificial light around, so Louis kept on reading. How come?

What is a word made up of 4 letters, yet is also made up of 3. Sometimes is written with 9 letters, and then with 4. Rarely consists of 6, and never is written with 5.

If you paint a brown house white it will become a white house. If the stoplight changes from red to green, then the light is green. So, if you throw a white shirt into the Red Sea, what will it become?

Can you make a fire with just a single stick?

Yesterday I fell from 30 feet high ladder but I don't get hurt. Why?

Peter wakes up daily to pick up his cycle and crosses the border between Spain and France daily with a bag on his shoulder. He is investigated daily by the officials but they don't find anything suspicious.

If we tell you that he is smuggling something what would it be?

How can you make number one disappear by adding something to it?

As we know that white starts the game of chess. Can you find the scenario shown in the picture below is possible when all the white pieces are at the original place while the black pawn is not as in the below picture?

Can you place six matchsticks in a manner that each of the matchsticks is in touch with the other five matchsticks?