If you remove one from eleven, it becomes ten. If you remove one from nine, it becomes ten.

How is this possible?

Name the three-letter word that can complete the below words:

A) L O _ _ _ E
B) E D U _ _ _ E
C) _ _ _ E R
D) _ _ _ T L E

Can you count the number of seconds in a year?

Clue: You need to bother about calculation.

Who are the happiest people in IPL match?

The person who makes it has no need for it. He who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know they are. What is it?

Sherlock Holmes was challenged to make a pre-drawn line smaller without erasing it. He did it in fractions of seconds. How?

I have a hole in my back and legs I lack.
I live where I can’t breathe and I eat without teeth.
What am I?

Complete the given grid with valid words. You can only use the letters AAEEIIMMPPTT.

Hint: The grid reads the same across as down.

See the given image carefully. What you have to do is move the blue checkers in the position of the black checkers and vice versa. You are only allowed to move the checker to an adjacent empty space. Do it in the least possible moves.

Alex is stranded on an island covered in forest.
One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process.

There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off.

How can the Alex survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)