What is common among 11, 69, and 88?

John is on an island and there are three crates of fruit that have washed up in front of him. One crate contains only apples. One crate contains only oranges. The other crate contains both apples and oranges.

Each crate is labelled. One reads 'apples', one reads 'oranges', and one reads 'apples and oranges'. He know that NONE of the crates have been labeled correctly - they are all wrong.

If he can only take out and look at just one of the pieces of fruit from just one of the crates, how can he label all of the crates correctly?

Irene killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?

John said, "If yesterday was tomorrow, today would be Friday."

When did John make this statement?

There are 2 sand hourglasses.

The small one can measure 5 hours and the large one can measure 7 hours.

How can we measure 16 hours with 2 sand hourglasses running together ?

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.

In particular commonwealth games, a female participant won silver and gold medals for a single event.

How can this be possible?

Find the missing number in the image below.

There are are five things wrong with this sentence; only geniuses will be able to to spot all of the mitstakes

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?