1 + 9 + 8 = ?
considering, 28 + 8 + 92 = 10

After a heavy Thanksgiving meal, the night watchman went to work. In the morning, he told his boss he had dreamed that a saboteur planted a bomb in the factory and that he felt it was a warning. The boss promptly fired him. Worker confused, Why boss fire him?

There are 2 people near the river and both of them want to get on the other side. The boat can only take one of them. But they got across.
How?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

If EELS + MARK + BEST + WARY = EASY

What does HELP + BARK + WARD + LEAD equal?

A man was telling some of his war stories to his grandchildren.
"When the World War I was on the verge of end, I was awarded for my bravery for I had saved a group of my men." He coughed and then added, "When we were fighting in northern France, an enemy soldier threw a grenade at us. Before it could explode, I picked it up and threw it away. For my act of bravery, right before the war ended, A General gave me a sword engraved with the words "Awarded for Display of Bravery and Heroism in World War 1"."

Hearing this, one of the grandson spoke up. "Grandpa, this is not a true story. It can"t be true!"

The truth is that it was not. How did the grand children know it?

Assume there are approximately 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) people on Earth. What would you estimate to be the result, if you multiply together the number of fingers on every person's left hand? (For the purposes of this exercise, thumbs count as fingers, for five fingers per hand.) If you cannot estimate the number then try to guess how long the number would be.

What mathematical symbol can be put between 5 and 9, to get a number bigger than 5 and smaller than 9?

Can you convert the number zero(0) into a positive number using just one mathematical operator ?

John asked Jack, "The time right now is 7 pm. Can you tell me what will be the time 23, 999, 995 hours later ?"

While Bella does not know the answer, do you ?