A woman lives in a skyscraper thirty-six floors high and is served by several elevators which stop at each floor going up and down. Each morning she leaves her apartment and goes to one of the elevators. Whichever one she takes is three times more likely to be going up than down. Why?

They do not possess flesh or feathers or scales or bone
But still, they are blessed with fingers and thumbs of their own.

You have 10 balls with you. A friend of yours out of nowhere asks you to place those ten balls in five lines such that each of the lines has exactly 4 balls on them. He needs to check your intelligence. Prove him by doing the task.

Can you count the number of squares in the figure below?

Identify the next two numbers in this series.

101, 112, 131, 415, 161, 718, ???, ???

Can you replace the question mark with the correct number?

Today is a very icy and cold morning in Newcastle. Mr Shearer, an office bus driver arrived to pick up the employees from the last stop. Shearer suddenly remembers that he needs to pick a newly joined 4miles to the north. Mr Shearer lost his direction compass, a few minutes later Shearer is able to figure that he is moving in the correct direction i.e. north. How did Shearer know that he is moving in the correct direction?

A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later?

How can you write nineteen in a manner that if we take out one, it becomes twenty?

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?