I am soft and cuddly that soothe your heart. But, If you pick my last name I am going to tear you all apart. Who am I?

No one wants to have it, but if one got it, he does not want to lose it. What is It?

A girl was standing near the window thinking something. All of a sudden she decides something and throws something out of the window. She dies very soon after throwing it. She was perfectly healthy and had no disease or allergy. No one killed her and she did not commit suicide.

Can you think of any possible explanation that is logical as well for what happened there?

It is always ahead of me yet I can never see it. What is it?

In the given figure, move three matchsticks so that the resulting figure contains two rectangles.

When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?

Aaron, Brad, Christopher, Danny and Elvis decided to play a game of tiddlywinks. In this game they decided that one win will get 1 point for winning, 0 for losing and 1/2 in case of a tie.

They finished the game in alphabetical order and it was found that the scores were different for each person.

Based on the following two statements, can you find out the result of the individual games?
Brad: No one could finish like me, without a loss.
Elvis: No one played worse than me, I finished without a single win.

I know a ten-letter word in the English language which can be typed using only the top rows of the computer keyboard.

How many letters are in the alphabet?

If an earthquake is 1 point higher on the Richter Scale than another earthquake which is actually 10 times stronger, how much stronger would an earthquake be if it was just half a point higher on the Richter scale?