As a whole I am both
safe and secure.

Behead me and I become
a place of meeting.

Behead me again and I am
the partner of ready.

Restore me, and I become
the domain of beasts.

What am I?

A rubber ball keeps on bouncing back to 2/3 of the height from which it is dropped. Can you calculate the fraction of its original height that the ball will bounce after it is dropped and it has bounced four times without any hindrance ?

I am the one who remains awake when you sleep. But I need to rest when you awake. Who Am I?

John replied, when asked how old he was. In 2 years he will be twice as old as he was five years ago.' How old is he ?

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?

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

A worker is to perform work for you for seven straight days. In return for his work, you will pay him 1/7th of a bar of gold per day. The worker requires a daily payment of 1/7th of the bar of gold. What and where are the fewest number of cuts to the bar of gold that will allow you to pay him 1/7th each day?

Count the number of triangles in the below picture?

Today is a very icy and cold morning in Newcastle. Mr Shearer, an office bus driver arrived to pick up the employees from the last stop. Shearer suddenly remembers that he needs to pick a newly joined 4miles to the north. Mr Shearer lost his direction compass, a few minutes later Shearer is able to figure that he is moving in the correct direction i.e. north. How did Shearer know that he is moving in the correct direction?

That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant.

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

Who is lying?