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

Your last good ping-pong ball fell into a narrow metal pipe embedded one foot deep in concrete.
How can you get it out undamaged, if all the tools you have are your tennis paddle, shoe laces, and plastic water bottle, which does not fit into the pipe?

My cousin lives in one story house in Antarctica. His house is made the of-of sandstone. what is the color of stairs?

Find the next number in the sequence

5 12 24 36 ?

I know a 5-digit number having a property that With a 1 after it, it is three times as large as it would be with a one before it.

Guess the number?

What word does this rebus represent?

meta meta
meta meta

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

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

Hint: The grid reads the same across as down.

John said, "If yesterday was tomorrow, today would be Friday."

When did John make this statement?

You have an empty wine bottle with a cork that has been secured at the top in a normal way. There is a metal ring inside the bottle that is suspended by a string.

How can you make the metal ring drop to the bottom if you are not allowed to touch anything - not the bottle, not the cork, not the thread and not the ring?