Solution:

The total population of New York City is about nine millions. Let us assume that 1 million among them are bald which leaves us with eight millions of people that are required to have different number of hairs on their head.

Now as per the surveys, on an average, people have 100, 000 hairs on their head. Since all must have different numbers, we start with one. Let us say someone has one hair strand, someone has two, and someone has three and so on. After 100, 000 people, we are left with 7, 900, 000 people left. Since all of them are needed to have different number of hair strands, we will move up from 100, 000.

In such case, at the end, you will be having a person with 8, 000, 000 hairs which is clearly impossible (even having 1, 000, 000 hairs on someone's head is impossible).

Therefore, there must be two people who have same number of hairs on their head.

This is a classic example of the pigeonhole principle.

Solution:

A cigar stuck in the wall

Solution:

If the man killed himself, he would not have been able to rewind the cassette. Thus it is clear someone else killed him.

Solution:

60 minutes

Explanation:
Roy will be able to consume all the five tablets in an hour.

Tablet 1 will be taken in 0 min.
Tablet 2 will be taken in 15 min.
Tablet 3 will be taken in 30 min.
Tablet 4 will be taken in 45 min.
Tablet 5 will be taken in 60 min.

Solution:

Steps:
1) Light fire on first bar from both the ends and second bar from one end.

2) After 30 seconds(when first bar gets completely burned out) , burn the second bar from second end as well.

3) When second run completely gets burned , you know its 45 seconds.

Solution:

From top to bottom, the flavors are :

nutty-chocolate
peppermint
orange
Jamaica
walnut

Solution:

1

Explanation:
4 + 9 = 1
The trick to solve is to assume the first number as the time in AM and the second number is the number of hours you have to add to it. You'll find the time in PM when you do that.

For example
7 AM + 7 hours = 14:00 or 2 PM

4 AM + 9 hours = 13:00 or 1 PM.

Solution:

10 prisoners must sample the wine. Bonus points if you worked out a way to ensure than no more than 8 prisoners die.

Number all bottles using binary digits. Assign each prisoner to one of the binary flags. Prisoners must take a sip from each bottle where their binary flag is set.

Here is how you would find one poisoned bottle out of eight total bottles of wine.

Bottle 1 Bottle 2 Bottle 3 Bottle 4 Bottle 5 Bottle 6 Bottle 7 Bottle 8
Prisoner A X X X X
Prisoner B X X X X
Prisoner C X X X X
In the above example, if all prisoners die, bottle 8 is bad. If none die, bottle 1 is bad. If A & B dies, bottle 4 is bad.

With ten people there are 1024 unique combination so you could test up to 1024 bottles of wine.

Each of the ten prisoners will take a small sip from about 500 bottles. Each sip should take no longer than 30 seconds and should be a very small amount. Small sips not only leave more wine for guests. Small sips also avoid death by alcohol poisoning. As long as each prisoner is administered about a milliliter from each bottle, they will only consume the equivalent of about one bottle of wine each.

Each prisoner will have at least a fifty percent chance of living. There is only one binary combination where all prisoners must sip from the wine. If there are ten prisoners then there are ten more combination where all but one prisoner must sip from the wine. By avoiding these two types of combination you can ensure no more than 8 prisoners die.

One viewer felt that this solution was in flagrant contempt of restaurant etiquette. The emperor paid for this wine, so there should be no need to prove to the guests that wine is the same as the label. I am not even sure if ancient wine even came with labels affixed. However, it is true that after leaving the wine open for a day, that this medieval wine will taste more like vinegar than it ever did. C'est la vie.

Solution:

4

No Of circles in the number.

Solution:

Hhe hung herself using big Ice slabs , which are now now melted and hence puddle of water.

Solution:

The Stars