New situation puzzles

A man is stranded on an island covered in forest. One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process. There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off. How can the man survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)

The son of a rich man was kidnapped. The kidnapper wanted the rich man to bring and put the expensive diamond into the call-box located in a city park. Policemen surrounded this park, intending to catch the criminal. The father of the kidnapped child came to the call-box and did everything the kidnapper said to him, but the police could not prevent the cunning criminal from taking the diamond out of the call-box. They didn't grab the villian as well. What did he do?

Two devices are commonly used by people. They are created for the same purpose. But one of them has lots of details and another does not has any. What are these things?

A man, who was examining some school, noticed that any time a teacher was asking a question, lots of pupils were ready to answer. Moreover, every time the teacher was choosing another person and the answer was always right.

One person decided to play golf with Nick Faldo, imposing one condition - he will choose the time and the place for a match. Nick agreed. As a result this person beat the champion.

In some city an amount of people injured in car accidents was very high. Then it was decided by administration to make the using of seat belts oblidatory. People started to obey this rule. But the amount of crash accidents remained the same. Moreover, the number of injured people who addressed to the hospital even increased.

A hospital director recently confirmed that many that many of people admitted to his hospital were not ill at all. They were perfectly healthy, yet were given hospital care and treatment.

Over 80 percent of Greenland is covered in ice. But why then it was called Greenland (a green land)?

A little girl was warned by her parents never to open the cellar door. If she did, she would see things that they did not want her to see. One day, while her parents were out, they accidentally left the cellar door unlocked. The girl opened the cellar door. What did she see?

A man woke up, lit a match and saw something that frightened him to death.

A man went into a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone at the party who drunk the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?

A married couple was speeding into town when their sedan ran out of gas. The man went for help after making sure his wife closed the windows and locked the doors of the car. Upon his return, he found his wife dead and a stranger in the car. The windows were still closed, the doors were still locked, and no damage was done to the car.