f you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

When Jack was six years old he hammered a nail into his favourite tree to mark his height. Ten years later at age sixteen, Jack returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimetres each year, how much higher would the nail be?

Spot the cat in the picture below

Once while in his court, King Akbar asked Birbal to write something on a wall that makes one sad when read in good times and makes one happy when read in sad times.

He took only a few moment and wrote something that fit the requirements. What did he write?

Keyboard words are not in alphabetical order, Why?

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?

If 1+9+8=1, what is 2+8+9?

A bag contains 64 balls of eight different colours. There are eight of each colour (including red). What is the least number you would have to pick, without looking, to be sure of selecting 3 red balls?

Count the number of triangles in the given picture.

I come in different shapes and sizes.
Parts of me are curved, other parts are straight.
You can put me anywhere you like,
but there is only one right place for me.
What am I?