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What can you catch but not throw?

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

Find the missing number: 6 13 25 51 101 ?
203 Explanation: 6x2+1=13 13x2-1=25 25x2+1=51 51x2-1=101 101x2+1=203

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

Fill in the blanks. Both words are anagrams of each other. This year the top 10 horse ______ took place in this huge ground measuring two _______.
races, acres

Sam's son is the brother of the only sister of Andrew. Dorothy, the only daughter of Sam, has only two brothers. What is the relation between Sam and Andrew?
Sam is Andrew's father.

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.

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