You have four chains. Each chain has three links in it. Although it is difficult to cut the links, you wish to make a single loop with all 12 links. What is the fewest number of cuts you must make to accomplish this task?

A bottle and cork cost $1.10. If the bottle costs a dollar more than the cork, how much does the cork cost?

A plane crashed off the coast of Mexico and every single person died, yet there were two survivors. How could that happen?

If every letter of the alphabet is worth its numerical value (A=1, B=2, C=3), what’s a common 11-letter word whose letter values total only 52?