I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?

What is next number in the pattern below:

131 517 192 123 ?

In a football game, Christina defeated Teresa by 2 - 0 but no man from either side scored. How can this be possible?

If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left?

John killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?

What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?

What is wrong in the below Picture?

I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

Do you know of a place where the wind blows south and then suddenly shifts direction towards the north?

An evil man kidnapped someone and made them take one of two pills. One was harmless, but the other was poisonous. Whichever pill the victim took, the kidnapper took the other one. The victim took their pill with water and died. The kidnapper survived. How did the kidnapper get the harmless pill?