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.

A newspaper is supposed to have 60 pages, but pages 24 and 41 are missing.
Which other pages won't be there?

By removing one matchstick and adding one matchstick, can you convert the word "ZOO" to an animal name?

What can you catch but never throw?

Two boys were admitted to a school. When the headmaster asks them about their parents, they tell him that they have same parents (father and mother). On further inquiry, it turns out that they both share the same date for their birthday.

"Are you twins," ask the headmaster.
"No," replies the boys.

Is it possible?

What is a word made up of 4 letters, yet is also made up of 3. Sometimes is written with 9 letters, and then with 4. Rarely consists of 6, and never is written with 5.

How can you spell "White of an egg" in one word?
Hint: I know you can spell coke, poke, and joke.

Can you solve this amazing hard number series problem?
7, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18 ?

A boy collects white seashells from the sea and brings them home every night. When he has enough of them, he decides to sell them to a trader.

The trader is ready to buy the shells and he asks the boy about the quantity. At this, the boy starts calculating. He has a giant box that contains 3 mini boxes. Two of them have another mini box inside. If the giant box can hold 50 shells, how many brown shells can he sell to the trader?

What is the Surname of Barbie Doll?