What is the word or phrase?

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

What goes up but never comes down?

You are on a Boat in the mid of a river. You have two cigarettes with you. One of these two you have to light, how will you light the cigarette?

There is an exact a week gap between Christmas and New Year. Hence, It is obvious that the new year that comes right after Christmas comes on the same day of the week.

A Strange thing happened in the Year 1777. Christmas occurs on Wednesday and New Year on Monday. How is that possible?

My thunder comes before lightning.
My lightning comes before my rain.
My rain dries up all the land it touches.

Who am I?

A man desired to get into his work building, however he had forgotten his code.
However, he did recollect five pieces of information
* Fifth number + Third number = 14
* The fourth number is one more than the second number.
* The first number is one less than twice the second number.
* The second number and the third number equals 10.
* The sum of all five numbers is 30.

What is the code ?

Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the circles in a manner that each side of the triangle sums up to 17.

Can you count the number of children in the picture below

Transform the word THINK into BRAIN while changing only one letter at a time in a manner that each of the word in the process is a real word!!!