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

In a supermarket, there is an intelligent glass pane before a refrigerating unit. This glass pane allows cherries and apples through it but does not allow grapes and Orange to pass through it.

Can you identify the rule that the glass pane is following?

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

That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant.

But the attorney testified he didn't have a brother.

Who is lying?

A boy purchased a book from a bookkeeper and gave him $100.
The cost of the book is $50 but the bookkeeper has no change, so he gets the change from the next shop and returns the boy his $50.

After some time the next shopkeeper came with the $100 note and told the bookkeeper that the note was a fraud, so he took the money back.

How much loss did the bookkeeper face?

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

Can you find out which triangle will have a bigger area among the following?
1. A triangle with sides 300, 400 and 500
2. A triangle with sides 300, 400 and 700

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.

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

why?

What is the longest word in the dictionary?