If a shopkeeper can only place the weights on one side of the common balance. For example, if he has weights 1 and 3 then he can measure 1, 3 and 4 only. Now the question is how many minimum weights and names of the weights you will need to measure all weights from 1 to 1000? This is a fairly simple problem and very easy to prove also.

What has many teeth, but cannot bite?

The day after tomorrow will be three days before Tuesday. Can you find out what is today?

A woman lives in a skyscraper thirty-six floors high and is served by several elevators which stop at each floor going up and down. Each morning she leaves her apartment and goes to one of the elevators. Whichever one she takes is three times more likely to be going up than down. Why?

Bobby and Wilbur decided to take their respective car out of the garage and race. None of them cheated and they both stood at the start time and decided to cover a distance in full throttle. The first to reach the mark was to be declared the winner.

Upon reaching the finishing mark, they found out that Bobby's car was 1.2 times faster than Wilbur's. Now, Wilbur had reached the mark about 1 minute and 30 seconds later than Bobby. Bobby's car reached the mark of 60 MPH on average.

Can you calculate the distance between the starting mark and the final mark with the help of the given data?

Double it and multiply it by 4. Then divide it by 8 and you’ll have it once more. What number is it?

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?

Find the next number in the series?
2, 12, 36, 80, 150, 252, 392, _ ?

I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

A newspaper is supposed to have 60 pages, but pages 24 and 41 are missing.
Which other pages won't be there?