I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

It is a six-letter word.
The first four letters are me.
The second and last letters are the same.
The fourth second and last letter is payment.

Who is it?

How many times do a clock's hands overlap in a day ?

A word I know has six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remain. What is it?

One night, a man runs away from home. He turns left and keeps running. After some time he turns left again and keeps running. Later, he turns left one more time and runs back home—but when he gets home, he finds a man in a mask. Who was the man in the mask?

Eight of us go fourth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we?

What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; That which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?

You are in a land where thirty men and two women were dressed in classic black and white dresses.
They begin to fight as soon as any of them move.

Where are you?

I look at you, you look at me I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?

A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?