A generous owner of a company decided to give a bonus of $45 to every man and $60 to every woman on his birthday. But only one-ninth of the men and one-twelfth of the women were present to take the bonus.

Can you calculate the amount of money the owner spent if there were 3552 employees?

What kind of storm is always in a rush?

There are people and strange monkeys on this island, and you can not tell who is who (Edit: until you understand what they said - see below). They speak either only the truth or only lies.
Who are the following two guys?
A: B is a lying monkey. I am human.
B: A is telling the truth.

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?

A word I know,
Six letters contain,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.

When I get multiplied by any number, the sum of the figures in the product is always me. What am I?

You have a three-gallon and a five-gallon measuring device. You wish to measure out four gallons.

Can you count the number of matches in the picture below ?

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

You have two buckets - one holds exactly 5 gallons and the other 3 gallons. How can you measure 4 gallons of water into the 5 gallon bucket?

(Assume you have an unlimited supply of water and that there are no measurement markings of any kind on the buckets.)