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An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

What is the closest relationship my son can have has with my brother's niece's father's brother's mother?
She can be my son's grandmother.

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

Replace one letter in each step to change the word COLD to its opposite. Each step has to be a legitimate word. COLD ? ? ? ?
WARM Explanation: COLD CORD WORD WORM WARM

What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the start of every end, and the end of every race?
The letter 'E'.

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

When you buy me I am black in color. When you use me I am red and when you discard me I am grey in color. Who am I?
Charcoal

Which room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
A Stable

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