If you say my name, I will no longer exist. What am I?

How many points are there on the globe where, by walking one mile south, then one mile east and then one mile north, you would reach the place where you started?

You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.
Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?

I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am NOT a gossip but I do get involved with everyone's dirty business.

I don't get anymore wetter, no matter how much rain falls on me.

John and Jill are madly in love with each other. To remind Jill of his pure love, John wants to send her a ring by post but in their country where burglary is quite prominent, any package that is not locked comes under the risk of being stolen for the contents.

John and Jill possess many padlocks but neither one of them has the other key.

Can you find a way John can send the ring to Jill safely?

In a fruit store, there was a unique weighing machine that was made to weigh only cherries and strawberries as they were priced the same.

Other fruits like watermelons or mango had different machines as they were expensive.

A man successfully buys watermelons at the price of cherries. How?

Decode the below four famous ciphers:

8P of the SS
1M of the E
1S of the SS
60M in 1H

Below the four parts have been reorganised. The four partitions are exactly the same in both arrangements. Why is there a hole?

There are hundred red gems and hundred blue gems. The blue gems are priceless while the red gems equal wastage. You have two sacks one labeled Heads and the other Tails. You have to distribute the gems as you want in the two sacks. Then a coin will be flipped and you will be asked to pick up a gem randomly from the corresponding sacks.

How will you distribute the gems between the sacks so that the odds of picking a Blue gem are maximum?