An artist while painting a scenic beauty, decides to paint three layers of blue colour on the sky.

Which layer will go on the first?

What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?

What is the four-digit number in which the first digit is one-third the second, the third is the sum of the first two, and the last is three times the second?

Only one color, but not one size,
Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
What is it?

A chess tournament is taking place on knock-out terms (the one who loses the match is out of the game).
(a) If 10 matches are played in total, how many players participated?
(b) If 20 players took part in the tournament, how many matches were played?

There is something which is always coming but never arrives?

Buy me, smell me or deliver me, I do not change.

Who am I?

A gardener planted the Lemon trees in a mathematical ordered way (i.e. he planted a tree in rows).
He created a total of 19 rows of trees.

Note: There should be more than 2 trees to count as a row.

What is the minimum number of trees required by the gardener to have 19 rows of trees?

Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?

A Man gave one of his sons 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
Hint: Figure out the relation between time and number, is not so easy..:)