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

There are two words one resembles the "state of rest" and the other is related to "writing/reading material".

Can you name these two words which also sound similar?

What occurs twice in a week, once in a year but never in a day?

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

Find the value of "?" in the ball picture Riddle below:

While house hunting in London, I came across a very good leasehold property Discussing the lease the landlady told me:

'The property was originally on a 99 years lease and two-thirds of the time passed is equal to four-fifths of the time to come. Now work it out for yourself and see how many years are to go!

A Scientist was fifty years old in the year 2000 but he was forty years old in the year 2010. How can this be possible?

PS: It has a logical answer.

Can you make numbers like 24, using numbers 3,3,7 & 7 with any arithmetic operator?

Two batsman each on 94 runs. Seven runs needed to win in last 3 balls. Both make 100*. How?

You have two strings whose only known property is that when you light one end of either string it takes exactly one hour to burn. The rate at which the strings will burn is completely random and each string is different. How do you measure 45 minutes?