What does this below rebus puzzle mean?

Can you solve below mathematical equation?

2^1234 - 2^1233

John is on an island and there are three crates of fruit that have washed up in front of him. One crate contains only apples. One crate contains only oranges. The other crate contains both apples and oranges.

Each crate is labelled. One reads 'apples', one reads 'oranges', and one reads 'apples and oranges'. He know that NONE of the crates have been labeled correctly - they are all wrong.

If he can only take out and look at just one of the pieces of fruit from just one of the crates, how can he label all of the crates correctly?

Can you replace the question mark with the correct number?

In a jungle where there are no street lights or any other artificial source of lights, I notice a black snake crossing the road.
How did I get sight of the snake?

The following alphametic has only one solution. Can you find it?
ENLIST + SILENT + LISTEN = ANAGRAM

PS: You may start the number from 0.

John named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third Charlie and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son's name?

What has a ring but no finger?

I know a nine-letter word having only one vowel.
Do you ?

If you read clockwise, you can form a word by inserting three missing letters in the picture given below. Can you do it?