What is common among 11, 69, and 88?

You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.
Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?

Can you find a five letter word that is left with only two letters if one is removed?

After a heavy Thanksgiving meal, the night watchman went to work. In the morning, he told his boss he had dreamed that a saboteur planted a bomb in the factory and that he felt it was a warning. The boss promptly fired him. Worker confused, Why boss fire him?

I noticed one of the words in the oxford dictionary is spelled incorrectly. What about you?

I was speeding and ran through a stop sign, yet two traffic officers who were there do nothing about it.

why?

A charming young lady was approached by a kind looking old woman in a restaurant. The old woman said to her, 'You look exactly like my younger daughter. Sadly she passed away a couple of months back. Could you do me a favor and say 'Goodbye, mother' with a kind smile on your face when I leave?

The young lady agreed for the same and said, 'Goodbye, mother' when the old woman left. Soon after, she got the most disengaging shock of her life.

Can you guess what the shock was?

I start and end with 500 and carry a 5 in my heart. But I require the first letter and the first number to be complete. I am the name of a King.

Who am I ?

No one wants to have it, but if one got it, he does not want to lose it. What is It?

John named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third Charlie and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son's name?