who is silent in the parliament?

My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

Christina is older than Kareena and Karishma. Katrina is older than Karishma and younger than Kareena. If Kareena has a brother named John, who is older than Christina, who's the youngest?

What is at the end of a rainbow?

Let's play a word game. Following are some meaningless words that can be completed by adding random letters on either side of the word.

For example, the word "rdo" can be formed into "pardon".

Using the same technique, can you complete the given words?
ecalc
airb
rinci
tibac
uidel
gorit
igna
eyho

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

What's the next in the series?

H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, In, Gd, Tl, ?

If in a car race, the man who came two places in front of the last man finished one ahead of the man who came fifth, how many contestants were there?

A man is shown a portrait painting. He looks closely, then tells, “Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man’s father is my father’s son!” Who is the man in the portrait?

I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?