Which three-digit number, made of consecutive digits, like 567, is 2 less than a cube and 2 more than a square?

A maths symbol is hidden in the below Bar Graph. Can you decipher it?

I add 5 to 9 and get 2. The answer is correct, so what am I?

What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; That which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?

There is a straight highway. Four different villages lie on that highway. The distance between them is different. The third village is 60km away from the first village; the fourth is 40 km away from the second; the third is 10 km near to the fourth that it is to the second.

Can you calculate the distance between the fourth and the first village ?

Replace all '*' with digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to make below statement true.

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He runs but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?

What number comes next in the series?

5 15 5 18 5 24 14 20 _

You are stuck on an island where you have nothing. You find four pieces of paper somewhere on the island. What will be your strategy to escape from the island safely?

PS: No other resource is available to you on the island, neither can you build anything.

A very interesting trivia question for all.

Why do men's shirts have their buttons on the right side and women's have buttons on the left-hand side?