What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

If two fifty-foot ropes are suspended from a forty-foot ceiling that is twenty feet apart, how much rope will you be able to steal if you have a knife?

John killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?

Can you count the number of triangles in the given picture?

James bond was pushed out of an aeroplane without any parachute.
He survived, How come?

Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I am double, I am single,
I am black blue and grey,
I am read from both ends,
And the same either way.

Can you find a five letter word that is left with only two letters if one is removed?

The more you take me, the more you leave me behind.
Who Am I?

You are on a Boat in the mid of a river. You have two cigarettes with you. One of these two you have to light, how will you light the cigarette?

We have shown you a regular water barrel as below. Without using any measuring device can you check if the barrel is more than half-filled or less than half-filled?