Tricky Riddles

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?

There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What colour are the stairs?

What mathematical symbol can be put between 5 and 9, to get a number bigger than 5 and smaller than 9?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.
Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?

There are are five things wrong with this sentence; only geniuses will be able to to spot all of the mitstakes

1 + 9 + 8 = ?
considering, 28 + 8 + 92 = 10

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