The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?

Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

A certain street contains 100 buildings. They are numbered from 1 to 100. How many 9's are used in these numbers?

Known by all without exception, Forever here, for your protection, Sometimes strong, sometimes weak, Right after the night I come - hot and chic. And while millions of miles away, I always get to you, I find my way. No life around could do without me, Can you guess what I might be?

What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

Without looking at a calendar, within a minute name, a boy's name using 5 consecutive 1st letters of 5 consecutive months

If six children and two dogs were under an umbrella, how come none of them got wet?

My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

A man and his wife were doing missionary work near the city of Nairobi in the country of Kenya in eastern Africa. Their housing had not yet been completed, so the man, the woman, and their six year old daughter were spending a few nights in the jungle in three small pup tents. During their third night there, the woman was awakened by the call of a hyena passing by, so she got out of her tent to see if her young daughter had been frightened by the noise. As she peered into her daughter's tent she was surprised to see the dark figures of lion, a panther, and a cheetah which were curled up next to her daughter. Seeing her daughter was asleep and unharmed, the woman slowly and quietly withdrew from the tent, and simply returned to her own tent and went back to bed. How could this child's mother leave her daughter in such a dangerous situation, and simply ignore what she had just witnessed without intervening in some way? How can such emotional coldness ever be explained; or is there something here we are missing?

I am a seven-letter word but if you remove four of my letters I will have one left. What word am I?