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.

You can hear me, but you can't touch or see me.

What am I?

When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?

The person who makes it has no need for it. He who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know they are. What is it?

I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?

If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?

Can you decipher the following common phrase?

T M C
A U O
H S M
W T E

A cricket has 6 legs, a squirrel has 4 legs and a spider has 8 legs.

In a local zoo, it was found that the total number of legs is 612. Also, there are equal number of each of the above animals/insects.

Can you find out how many animals are there in the zoo?

Can you identify the famous TV character from the rebus below?

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?