What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?

Okay before we begin with the puzzle, do keep in mind that you have to answer it quickly.

You are participating in a car race. Seeking the perfect moment, you overtake the second person in the race. What positions are you in now?

Akbar called Birbal and asked him to draw a line on the floor. He asked Birbal to make that line smaller without erasing it. Birbal smiled and did it before Akbar could blink his eyes.

How did he managed to do it?

It is a six-letter word.
The first four letters are me.
The second and last letters are the same.
The fourth second and last letter is payment.

Who is it?

What's the only room from which no one can enter or leave

I am a five-letter word and people eat me. If you remove the first letter I become an energy form. If you remove the first two letters, I am needed to live. Scramble the last three letters and I am a drink. What word am I?

A blonde put eyeliner on her head. Why?

Find the next number in the sequence

5 12 24 36 ?

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

What does the below image rebus riddle means ?