What is the below Rebus indicate?

What is the next number in this series?

4,12,84,3612....

A man was convicted of a minor offence in Akbar court. Akbar decided to give him a chance. He asked him to give a statement. If the statement is true, he will be killed by lions and if it is false, he will be killed by trampling of wild elephants.

The convicted person requested help from Birbal and since the crime was not a big one, Birbal decided to help him. Whatever Birbal suggested impressed Kabir and he let the convicted person go.

What did Birbal suggest to the person?

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

Can you find out the next digit in the following series ?

0, 0, 1, 3, 2, 6, 3, 9, 4, 12, 5, ?

No one wants to have it, but if one got it, he does not want to lose it. What is It?

Two-person want to cross a river. Only one boat is present on the riverside that can carry only one person at a time.

However, they still manage to cross the river. How is it possible?

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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.

John named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third Charlie and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son's name?

Here is a Swiss Cross. You have to make two straight cuts in the figure so that it is divided into four congruent pieces. Also, you should be able to join these pieces into a square then. Can you accept this challenge?