Your job is to measure 45 minutes if you have only two cords and matches to light the cords.

1. The two cords are twisted from various materials, so their different segments can burn at different rates.
2. Each cord burns from end to end in exactly one hour.

Describe your way of measuring the 45 minutes.

What do you get if you add 2 to 100 four times?

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 some countries which do not have the alphabet 'A' in them?

The peacock is a bird that does not lay eggs. How do they get baby peacocks?

There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an apple so that all but one person can see it?

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be ?

If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?

John said, "If yesterday was tomorrow, today would be Friday."

When did John make this statement?

500 women soldiers are arranged in an array of ten rows and fifty columns in accordance with their respective heights. Now, the tallest woman from each row is asked to move out in the front. From them, the shortest one is labelled as Alpha. They are then asked to resume their original position.

Now, the shortest woman in each column is asked to come out in front. The tallest among them is labelled as Beta.

Can you find out if Alpha will be taller or Beta?