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

You have to put a letter on the following to make it a meaningful word. The only challenge is that you can't use 'E'.

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Manish and Manoj play 5 games of chess.
Both Manish and Manoj win the exact same number of games. There is no tie at all.

How?

Can you find a five letter word that is left with only two letters if one is removed?

How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550 ?

There was a kingdom in which the king had no heir to take over his thrown. Even the queen was dead and he himself was on the verge of dying. He thought about it and then summoned all of the teenagers. He gave one seed each to all of them and asked them to grow the plant. He announced that the one with the most beautiful plant will become the king/queen of the empire after the death of the king.

After a month, all of them were called. The king looked at all of the plants but announced the girl with an empty pot as the queen of the empire. Why?

A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?

John was born on March 5, 1970, in Delhi, India. Jacob was born 25 days before John. The year when they took birth, Republic Day fell on Monday.

Can you find out on what day was Jacob born?

How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?

By moving just one matchstick, you need to make the below statement true. Can you do it?