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.

How many cubic feet of dirt are in a hole of one foot deep, three feet long, and two feet wide?

A man says, "Brothers and sisters, have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is that man?

A cat had three kittens: Snophy, Topsy and Jorden. What was the mother's name?

What number when divided in half becomes zero?

How can you leave a room with two legs and return with six legs?

Can you find out a way through which you can make five squares out of the given figure by moving just six match sticks?

Two guards were on duty outside a barracks. One faced up the road to watch for anyone approaching from the North. The other looked down the road to see if anyone approached from the South. Suddenly one of them said to the other, "Why are you smiling?"

How did he know his companion was smiling?

Find the next number in the series?
2, 12, 36, 80, 150, 252, 392, _ ?

If in a code language, DISTANCE is written as IDTUBECN and DOCUMENT is written as ODDVNTNE, the how will THURSDAY be coded as in the same language?