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

How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550 ?

Take 9 from 6, 10 from 9, 50 from 40, and leave 6.

How Come ??

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?

How can you spell "White of an egg" in one word?
Hint: I know you can spell coke, poke, and joke.

What does the following represent?

N N N N N N N

A A A A A A A

C C C C C C C

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

Chef Andrea has to light the kitchen stoves to open her restaurant for the day. There are three stoves in the kitchen: A glass stove, a brick stove, and a wood stove. She only has one match. Which does she light up first?

Assume there are approximately 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) people on Earth. What would you estimate to be the result, if you multiply together the number of fingers on every person's left hand? (For the purposes of this exercise, thumbs count as fingers, for five fingers per hand.) If you cannot estimate the number then try to guess how long the number would be.

In the Mexico City area, there are two Houses H1 and H2. Both H1 and H2 have two children each.
In House H1, The boy plays for Mexico Youth academy and the other child plays baseball.
In House H2, The boy Plays soccer for his school in Mexico and they recently have a newborn.

Can you prove that the probability of House-H1 having a girl child is more than that of House-H2?