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

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?

Find the mistake in the below maths equations

A = 2
A(A-1) = 2(A-1)
A2-A = 2A-2
A2-2A = A-2
A(A-2) = A-2
A = 1

A beggar on the street can make one cigarette out of every 6 cigarette butts he finds. After one whole day of searching and checking public ashtrays the beggar finds a total of 72 cigarette butts. How many cigarettes can he make and smoke from the butts he found?

Identify the hidden meaning behind this picture?

Many have heard it, but nobody has ever seen it, and it will not speak back until spoken to. What is it?

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

You are given 16 witch hats. The hats are divided in four different colours – red, blue, green and yellow. Every colour has been assigned to four hats. Now each of the hat will be glued with a label of an arithmetic sign – ‘+’, ‘-‘, ‘x’ or ‘/’. But you can label one sign only once on one colour. In such an arrangement, the hats can be uniquely defined by its colour and symbol.

Can you arrange all the 16 hats in a 4x4 grid in a fashion that no two rows and columns have a repetition of colour or sign?
We have arranged four hats in the below picture to assist you.

The dirtier I get, the whiter I look. Who am I?

There is a square of a particular number which when doubled, becomes 7 more than its quarter.

Can you find the number?