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Adam is 13 years old in 1980. In 1985 he is 8 years old. How?
The dates are in BC (Before Christ).

One day on reaching school I found there were a total of 16 bicycles and tricycles parked in the school compound. I counted the total number of wheels to be 38. Find out the number of bicycles.
10 bicycles. Explanation:: All the cycles will have at least 2 wheels, so 16 cycles will have 16x2=32 wheels. But in total there are 38 wheels. So the extra wheels (38-32=6) must be of the tricycles because bicycles have 2 wheels and tricycles have 3 wheels. Therefore, the number of tricycles parked is 6 and hence the number of bicycles is 10.

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

I am a seven letter word. I am very heavy. Take away two letters from me and you will get 8. Take away one letter from me and you will get 80. Who am I?

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

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your Name

I am so fragile that even if anybody says my name I break. Who am I?

You can catch me but cannot throw me. Who am I?

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

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