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?

Replace The Question Mark Below With the Correct Number.

2 {38} 3
4 {1524} 5
6 {3548} 7
8 {????} 9

One day, all the courtiers from Akbar's court were gathered in the assembly hall when one of them told the Emperor that all his valuables had been stolen by a thief the previous night.
This shocked the Emperor to his core as the place where that courter stayed was the most secured in the kingdom. The Emperor thought that it is not at all possible for an outsider to enter into the courtier's house and steal the valuables. Only another courtier could commit this crime. He quickly called Birbal to identify the thief.
Birbal thought for a while and successfully solved the mystery by identifying the thief in just one statement.
What did Birbal say?

A Car driver was heading down a street in Washington. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a 'no left turn' sign and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the right side of the road past a cop car. Still, he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?

I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?

There are three boxes of different sizes with three cupcakes inside each of the boxes in Christina's kitchen. At night her daughter wakes up and goes to the kitchen. She opens a box and eats all three cakes.

But in the morning Christina finds out that each box still had three cupcakes. How?

What comes
Once in a Year
Twice in a Month
4 times in a Week
6 times in a Day

what one word does the below rebus identifies?

I am quite hot but become too cold if you remove the first two letters. What am I?

What are the next two letters in the following series and why?
W A T N T L I T F S _ _

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