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

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

When it's bad luck to meet a black cat?

In a football game, Christina defeated Teresa by 2 - 0 but no man from either side scored. How can this be possible?

A Shopkeeper sold a few chickens to four different customers on a particular day. It was such that each customer purchased half of the remaining chickens and half the chicken more.

Can you find out how many chicken were sold by the shopkeeper on that day if we tell you that the fourth customer bought a single chicken ?

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

Can you name an animal whose killing cannot be performed without spilling your own blood?

A swan sits at the center of a perfectly circular lake. At an edge of the lake stands a ravenous monster waiting to devour the swan. The monster can not enter the water, but it will run around the circumference of the lake to try to catch the swan as soon as it reaches the shore. The monster moves at 4 times the speed of the swan, and it will always move in the direction along the shore that brings it closer to the swan the quickest. Both the swan and the the monster can change directions in an instant.
The swan knows that if it can reach the lake's shore without the monster right on top of it, it can instantly escape into the surrounding forest.

How can the swan successfully escape?

Fate has decided that you will only be pleased to meet me when you need me

Maybe that is why, when I am working, I start working

However annoying I may be to the regulars, the little ones are always inspired

I will always be waiting if you try to reach me

How many of you can guess my name, let me see

What will you call your mother's brother's brother-in-law?