What does the following represent?

N N N N N N N

A A A A A A A

C C C C C C C

A bag contains 64 balls of eight different colours. There are eight of each colour (including red). What is the least number you would have to pick, without looking, to be sure of selecting 3 red balls?

If we change the South-East direction into North and North-East into West and all others similarly.
Can you find out which direction will be in the place of South-West direction?

When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

There are six people in a family namely M, N, O, P, Q and R.

R and O are brother and sister.

N is the brother of Q's husband.
P is the father of M and grandfather of R.

How many male members are in the family?

A person is found murdered in his Chamber. When the crime scene is investigated, the Investigator find out that there is a calendar on which the victim has written a few numbers with his blood. The numbers are 4, 11, 11 and 4.

There are four suspects in the murder, John, Jacob, Anna and Lee. Can you find out who is the murderer?

In The 1st month of this year(the year 2013), I noticed that the date 13-1-13 (13 January 2013) is special.

This date is special as:

Date * Month = Year.

Can you figure out which year of this century has a maximum number of such dates?

How many triangles can you count in the figure given?

It comprises roots which nobody sees,
Much taller than those trees,
Up and up it goes,
Still it never grows?