Eight of us go fourth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we?

A few friends are enjoying their sea voyage in a boat full of apples. On the way, they felt hungry and thus decided to eat the apples. Together, they ate two dozen of apples. When they have eaten the apples, will there be any change in the water level?

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

Why do we preferably have round manhole covers and not square ones?

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Like you see, some letters have gone missing from these words that contain the IE pair at some or the other place. The letters that will be used to fill the blanks are given below. Use them and form meaningful words. Can you do that?

A, C, D, F, H, K, L, M, N, N, O, R, R, S, S, S, T, T, Y and Y.

How can you tell a raw egg from a hard-boiled egg?

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

Which fur should we be getting from the Lion?

While preparing the table for dinner, wife came up with an idea to tease his mathematician husband. She asked her husband to pick nine toothpicks and make ten without breaking any toothpick.

The husband was also smart and did it within seconds. How ?

There is one thing that goes round the house and also inside the house but never even share a brief touch. What is it?