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

In particular commonwealth games, a female participant won silver and gold medals for a single event.

How can this be possible?

I hide my treasure in the ground, my tail is big and fluffy. If you spot me in a tree, please don’t call me scruffy. What am I?

There are five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in the English language.
Can you tell us a word that contains all these vowels?

Readers with the eyes of a hunter can find the snake in the field. Can you? Test your puzzle-solving skills now!

I come in different shapes and sizes.
Parts of me are curved, other parts are straight.
You can put me anywhere you like,
but there is only one right place for me.
What am I?

In a jungle where there are no street lights or any other artificial source of lights, I notice a black snake crossing the road.
How did I get sight of the snake?

I am an eight letter word and I am a computer terminology.
The second, third and fourth letters make an animal.
The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth letters make a weapon.
The first, second, third and fourth letters can be taken as an outcome of any exam.
The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth letter combine to form a high end typing software.

Can you tell who am I ?

Find the next number in the series?
2, 12, 36, 80, 150, 252, 392, _ ?

A man and a dog were going down the street. The man rode, yet walked. What was the dog’s name?