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

It is a 5 letter word if you take away first letter it is something you get from sun, if you remove second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it?

We can be boring,Or interesting.
We can be long,Or short.
We can have pictures,Or just words.
Many love us,But many also hate us.
What are we?

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?

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?

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

There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

What is it?

How much will a 38° angle measure when looked at under a microscope that magnifies ten times?

How can one talk without saying a single word?