My friends called me Iron59 because my parents are a chemist and a mathematician. What is my real name?

The two towns are exactly 100 km apart. John leaves City A driving at 30 km/hr and Jacob leaves City B half an hour later driving at 60 km/hr. Who will be closer to City A when they meet?

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

A Doctor always sneezes before the rain. Doctor sneezes, Will it rain?

A man has eighty-one cows ( numbered 1,2,3...81 as such). The beauty is that cow no. 1 gives 1ltr of milk, cow no. 2 gives 2ltrs of milk and so on. The man wants to equally distribute the cows among his nine sons so that each one of them gets the same quantity of milk.

Look at this sequence from top to bottom. What is the next number in the sequence?
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211

I am never scared but became petrified and can’t live in a house but would die to make one. What am I?

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

I noticed one of the words in the oxford dictionary is spelled incorrectly. What about you?

How many times do a clock's hands overlap in a day ?