What is the word or phrase?

One day, John and his friends were playing around. Jacob hit something with a Pin and it popped. John's dad came into the room that very moment, but he wasn't mad. In fact, he was smiling. What did Jacob hit?

I know a nine-letter word having only one vowel.
Do you ?

The more it dries, the wetter it becomes. Can you tell what it is?

There are nine letters in the below-given diagram. You have to form a nine-letter word using these letters.

There were three women in all the swimming costumes!
One was happy and the other two were sad!
The happy one was crying and the sad ones were smiling.
Why was this?

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?

Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.

A man is shown a portrait painting. He looks closely, then tells, “Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man’s father is my father’s son!” Who is the man in the portrait?

John and Jenni are a married couple. They have two kids, one of them is a girl. Assume safely that the probability of each gender is 1/2.
What is the probability that the other kid is also a girl?

Hint: It is not 1/2 as you would first think.