At a Society election for president, precisely 963 votes were cast.
There is a total of 4 candidates that participate in the election.

The winning candidate exceeds the opponents by 53, 79 and 105 votes.

How many votes do each candidate gets?

You are given a cube that is made with the help of 10x10x10 smaller cubes summing up to a total of 1000 smaller cubes. You are asked to take off one layer of the cubes.
How many remain now?

Alex is stranded on an island covered in forest.
One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process.

There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off.

How can the Alex survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)

I am beautiful, up in the sky. I am magical, yet I cannot fly. To people I bring luck, and to some people, riches. The boy at my end does whatever he wishes. What am I?

Which wheel of car does not rotate when you turn your car right?

My friends called me Iron59 because my parents are a chemist and a mathematician. What is my real name?

Find the next number in the following series:
6, 14, 26, 98, __?

The picture shows the dice results in each couple of throws. If they are actually following a pattern, can you find out the missing one?

Three logicians went to bar for having a drink. The bar person asks the logicians "Do they all want to have the drink?". The first logician replied, " I don't know". The second logician replied, " I don't know". What is the reply of the last logician?

A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years. How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?