Why are televisions attracted to people?

A monk has a very specific ritual for climbing up the steps to the temple. First, he climbs up to the middle step and meditates for 1 minute. Then he climbs up 8 steps and faces east until he hears a bird singing. Then he walks down 12 steps and picks up a pebble. He takes one step up and tosses the pebble over his left shoulder. Now, he walks up the remaining steps three at a time which only takes him 9 paces. How many steps are there?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

A famous swimmer can swim downstream in a lake in exactly 40 minutes with the lake current.
He can swim upstream in that lake in exactly 60 minutes against the lake current.
The length of the lake is 2 km.

How long he can cover the distance of one side at a still lake with no current?

What do the following words have in common?

Assess
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Voodoo

What goes up but never comes down?

In a jungle where there are no street lights or any other artificial source of lights, I notice a black snake crossing the road.
How did I get sight of the snake?

Can you identify the direction in which this bus is moving; left or right?

Hint: The bus is moving on the roads of London.

Krish is 45 years old and his mother Crishtina is 73 years old.

Can you find out how many years ago, his mother was three times his age?

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