Can you solve the tricky chess rebus puzzle below by ciphering the hidden meaning?

What do the following words have in common?

Assess
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Voodoo

Alex opened 24 presents
Jonah opened 8 presents
Clara opened 1 present

Can you find out how many presents were opened by Candy?

Okay before we begin with the puzzle, do keep in mind that you have to answer it quickly.

You are participating in a car race. Seeking the perfect moment, you overtake the second person in the race. What positions are you in now?

There is one thing that goes round the house and also inside the house but never even share a brief touch. What is it?

What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it?

Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?

James bond was pushed out of an aeroplane without any parachute.
He survived, How come?

You have a three-gallon and a five-gallon measuring device. You wish to measure out four gallons.

We have arranged an array of numbers below. What you have to do is use any kind of mathematical symbol you know excluding any symbol that contains a number like cube root. You can use any amount of symbols but you have to come up with a valid equation for all of them.

0 0 0 = 6
1 1 1 = 6
2 + 2 + 2 = 6
3 3 3 = 6
4 4 4 = 6
5 5 5 = 6
6 6 6 = 6
7 7 7 = 6
8 8 8 = 6
9 9 9 = 6