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.

Begin with a word, five letters to my name,
Remove the first and last but I am the same
Take out my middle and still, I remain.
What word am I?

It was a dark stormy night and a couple were in a car driving madly to a city. The car broke down and the husband had to go get help from someone who spoke his language. He was afraid to leave his wife alone in the car so he locked the car before leaving. When he came back, the car was in the same state as he had left it but his wife was dead, there was blood on the floor and there was a stranger in the car. What happened?

Peter wakes up daily to pick up his cycle and crosses the border between Spain and France daily with a bag on his shoulder. He is investigated daily by the officials but they don't find anything suspicious.

If we tell you that he is smuggling something what would it be?

Find the smallest sentence with all the English alphabet.

Can you find the largest Three-digit number whose sum is 14 and whose square is less than 5,00,000?

Take away my first letter, then take away my second letter. Then take away the rest of my letters, yet I remain the same. What am I?

Can you count the number of triangles in the picture below?

How many pluses should we put between the digits of 987654321 to get a total of 99, and where?

There is a wide field of corn. A goose finds its way into the field and starts running. Can you find out till which point the goose can run into the field?