He asked to die of old age.

30.

There are:

16 1×1 squares
9 2×2 squares
4 3×3 squares
1 4×4 square (the whole shape)

Hence, 16 + 9 + 4 + 1 = 30.

WOMEN = 23, 15, 13, 5, 14

The number is the letter’s position in the alphabet.

1. Fill the 3-gallon bucket.
2. Pour the 3 gallons of water into the 5-gallon bucket
3. Fill the 3-gallon bucket again.
4. Fill up the 5-gallon bucket with the 3-gallon bucket, leaving you with 1 gallon left in the 3-gallon bucket.
5. Empty out the 5-gallon bucket.
6. Pour the remaining 1 gallon of water from the 3-gallon bucket into the 5-gallon bucket.
7. Fill the 3-gallon bucket.
8. Pour the 3 gallons of water from the 3-gallon bucket into the 5-gallon bucket leaving you with 4 gallons of water in the 5-gallon bucket.

Alternate solution:

1. Fill up the 5 gallon bucket
2. Pour it into 3 gallon bucket, leaving 2 gallons
3. Empty out the 3 gallon bucket
4. Pour the 2 gallons in the 5 gallon bucket into the 3 gallon bucket
5. Fill up the 5 gallon bucket and pour it into the 3 gallon bucket until it’s full, leaving 4 gallons in the 5 gallon bucket.

It has a record nine letters but only one vowel, and it’s one of the longest one-syllable words in English.

The tree is in the middle of the road as measured by length, not in the middle of it by width. In other words, the tree is growing on the side of the road, but it is equidistant from either end of the road, and therefore in the middle.

This makes it quite easy to pass the tree as you just drive on the road, unless you’re texting and you run into said tree. If this is the case, stop texting.

Thanks to everyone’s input on this one!