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

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?

I am lying and I always lie. Tell me whether I am lying or telling the truth.

It has five wheels, though often think four, You cannot use it without that one more, You can put things in it, you can strap things on top, You can't find it in the market, but you can still go shop. What is it?

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?

If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?

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

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

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).

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?