Which flower has two lips?

There are two candles. Both will only burn exactly for an hour. How will you use these two candles to measure forty-five minutes?

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

When can we add 2 to 11 and get 1 as the correct answer?

They came out at night, without being called.
They lost at day, without being stolen.
Who are they?

The world's largest Thanksgiving turkey was on display at a fair. Everyone was admiring it when suddenly a woman ran up and shot the turkey and left. Everyone knew her yet nobody made any attempts to stop or report her. Why?

What can you catch but never throw?

Its something that each of us devours,
Not just us but birds, beats, trees, and flowers,
Frets iron and nibbles steel,
Toil hard stones to meal,
Exterminates king, collapse town,
And blows the mountains down.

You find yourself in a strange place guarded by two guards.One of the guard always say truth while other always lies.You don't know the identity of the two.You can ask only one question to go out from there. What should you ask?

Can you figure out the logic I used to decide the order of the following words:
gun, shoe, spree, door, hive, kicks, heaven, gate, line, den