I can sizzle like bacon,
I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole,
I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole.

A chess tournament is taking place on knock-out terms (the one who loses the match is out of the game).
(a) If 10 matches are played in total, how many players participated?
(b) If 20 players took part in the tournament, how many matches were played?

Can you find the key in the picture below?

I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I?

Below, you can see some coding:
January = 1017
February = 628
March = 1335
April = 145
May = 1353
June = 1064
July = 1074
August = 186

Now deciphering the way it has been coded, can you find out how September will be coded?

As easy as you can get into me, it is as hard to get out of me.

Do you know what I am?

There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

What is it?

In a competitive exam, each correct answer could win you 10 points and each wrong answer could lose you 5 points. You sat in the exam and answered all the 20 questions, which were given in the exam.
When you checked the result, you scored 125 marks on the test.

Can you calculate how many answers given by you were wrong?

Can you place six X (crosses) in below board without making three in a row in any way ?

There are 3 apples in the basket and you take away 2. How many apples do you have now?