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

I am quite hot but become too cold if you remove the first two letters. What am I?

Many have heard it, but nobody has ever seen it, and it will not speak back until spoken to. What is it?

There was a blind man. He had four socks in his drawer either black or white. He opened it and took out two socks. Now the probability that it was a pair of white socks is 1/2.

Can you find out the probability that he had taken out a pair of black socks ?

What does the rebus below mean?

TEN BADTION

They are three errirs in this question. Can you find them?

If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?

If all the below statements are true

1. Gianni was either in Italy or France in 1997.
2. If Gianni did not kill Versace, Hilton must have killed him.
3. If Versace died of suffocation, then either Gianni killed him or Versace committed suicide.
4. If Gianni was in Italy in 1997, then Gianni did not kill Versace.
5. Versace died of suffocation, but he did not kill himself.

Who killed Versace and where was Gianni in 1997?

If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?

What's the next in the series?

H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, In, Gd, Tl, ?