There are two words one resembles the "state of rest" and the other is related to "writing/reading material".

Can you name these two words which also sound similar?

How many pluses should we put between the digits of 987654321 to get a total of 99, and where?

Place a mathematical symbol between the numerals 5 and 9 in such a way that the resulting number is greater than 5 but smaller than 9.

You throw me out when you want to use me and you take me in when you don't want to use me.

Who Am I?

There are 4 big houses. They are made from the materials: red marble, green marble, white marble and blue marble.

* Mrs Jennifer's house is somewhere to the left of the green marble one and the third one alone is white marble.
* Mrs Sharon owns a red marbles house and Mr Cruz does not live at either end, but lives somewhere to the right of the blue marbles house.
* Mr Danny lives in the fourth house, while the first house is not made from red marble.

Who lives where, and what is their house made from?

In a chess board, the queen piece can move horizontally, vertically and diagonally freely. The picture represents the same.Can you place 8 queens on the board in a manner that none of the queens can attack each other?

Solve the below puzzle by replacing the question mark with the correct number.

3 6 12

4 8 16

5 10 ?

On a charity event in Russia, Murray beat Djokovic by winning six games and losing three games.
Note: There is a total of 5 service breaks(one who serve lost the game).
Who served first, Djokovic or Murray?

A man was going to bleach his socks because they had gotten muddy the day before. As he was pouring the bleach into the washing machine, he spilt some on the floor. He got some cleaning fluid and mopped it up with a rag. Minutes later he was dead. What killed him?

John’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?