Why Wine Glass Stem is so long?

Can you complete the sequence puzzle?

AR TA GE CA LE VI LI _

John’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?

The day before yesterday I was 25 and the next year I will be 28. This is true only one day in a year. What day is my birthday?

What Deficiency does the below rebus represent?

VIT_MIN

A non-stop marathon is the shared favourite sport of three brothers.

*The oldest one is fat and short and trudges slowly on.
*The middle brother's tall and slim and keeps a steady pace.
*The youngest runs just like the wind, speeding through the race.

"He is young in years, we let him run!" the other two brothers explained, "'because though he is surely number one, he is second, in a way." Why is it?

You have two rectangular wires.

Both of them have property that when you light the fire from one end , it will take 60 minutes to get completely burn.

However, they do not burn at consistent speed (i.e it might be possible 1st 20% burn in 50 minutes and 80% can burn in 10 minutes).

So how could you measure 45 minutes ?

Can you arrange four 9's and use at most 2 math symbols, to make the total 100?

In a rainy season, one day 3 huge ladies walked under a normal-sized umbrella.
The umbrella is not huge enough to accommodate all 3 ladies yet not a single lady got wet. Why?

Decode the below four famous ciphers:

8P of the SS
1M of the E
1S of the SS
60M in 1H