How many squares, of any size, can you find on this chessboard which do not contain a Rook?

What is the Surname of Barbie Doll?

I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?

What demands an answer, but asks no questions

I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?

I look flat, but I am deep. Hidden realms I shelter. Lives I take, but the food I offer. At times I am beautiful. I can be calm, angry, and turbulent. I have no heart but offer pleasure as well as death. No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have. What am I?

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?

What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

I am under you when I am whole.
I shift above you if you remove the first letter.
I come all around you if you remove the second as well.

Can you tell me who I am?