Name one eight-letter word with 'kst' in the middle, 'in' the beginning, 'and' at the end.?

What does the following represent?

N N N N N N N

A A A A A A A

C C C C C C C

What mathematical symbol can be put between 5 and 9, to get a number bigger than 5 and smaller than 9?

That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant.

But the attorney testified he didn't have a brother.

Who is lying?

There are 2 people near the river and both of them want to get on the other side. The boat can only take one of them. But they got across.
How?

A boy and a girl are sitting on the porch.
"I'm a boy," says the child with black hair.
"I'm a girl," says the child with red hair.
If at least one of them is lying, who is which?

John and his wife were living in a rural place. On a particular day, John's wife fell ill and he called the local doctor. When the doctor picked up, he said, "Doctor, my wife is ill. She might have appendicitis."

"This can't be possible! I took out her appendix two years ago myself," the doctor explained.

When diagnosed, John's wife was found to have appendicitis. How can this be possible?

There was a kingdom in which the king had no heir to take over his thrown. Even the queen was dead and he himself was on the verge of dying. He thought about it and then summoned all of the teenagers. He gave one seed each to all of them and asked them to grow the plant. He announced that the one with the most beautiful plant will become the king/queen of the empire after the death of the king.

After a month, all of them were called. The king looked at all of the plants but announced the girl with an empty pot as the queen of the empire. Why?

As we know that white starts the game of chess. Can you find the scenario shown in the picture below is possible when all the white pieces are at the original place while the black pawn is not as in the below picture?

It is raining today at 11:59 am. What is the probability of sunny weather after 72 hours?