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

I have nine bottles of wine and one of the nine bottles is poisoned.
I need to find the poisoned bottle with two facts
(1) Poison is deadly, only a sip will cost death
(2) I have two mice to do so.

How should I do it?

What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?

It can't be seen, can't be felt, can't be heard, and can't be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after, Ends life, and kills laughter.
What is it?

There is something which you can be arrested for attempting but not for successfully completing.

I never stop running even when I standstill. If I am formed by joining two identical bodies together, can you guess who I am?

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

You need to pick one entry from pot A and one from pot B to have a perfect match. Can you do it?

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?

The ages of a father and son add up to 66.
The father's age is the son's age reversed.
How old could they be?
(3 possible solutions).