John’s father has three kids one is Alexis the second one is jolly who is the third?

Why did the boy John make the girl Minda pay for her own meal on their date?

A man got trapped with the terrorists, there were two papers, one said yes the other no. A man in the terrorists said if you get the paper that sees no I will kill you, another man comes in the room, sees, I put no on both papers. How does he get out of it?

A mother has four children and two sweet potatoes. How can she feed each an equal amount of sweet potatoes? Do not use fractions.

One sunny afternoon, three men go for a ride on a hot air balloon over the Thar desert. After two hour into the trip, the balloon begins to lose altitude. A week later, someone found one of the ballooners laying on the desert sand dead, naked, and holding half a toothpick. What happened to him?

These are a type of starchy food
Mashed or fried they can be found
They often come from Idaho
And they are grown underground

What are they?

Beulah died in the Appalachians while Craig died at sea. Everyone was much happier with Craigs death. Why?

You are standing on the top one of the two solid metal pillars. They are both exactly one hundred meter apart from each other and they both stand one hundred meter high. There is absolutely nothing around these pillars, but you have one small twig, one small rock and an unlimited supply of rope. Using only the materials named, how can you get from the top of the pillar that you are on to the top of the other pillar?

I was was with my friend one evening at his home, he had three daughters. I asked him how old they were. He told, The product of their ages is 72 and the sum of their ages is equal to the number of my house and my oldest daughter likes strawberry shortcake.

How old is each daughter?

Name the most recent year in which New Years came before Christmas?