Can you name some countries which do not have the alphabet 'A' in them?

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

_ _ _ IE _ _
_ _ _ IE _
_ _ IE _ _
_ _ IE _
_ _ _ _ IE

Like you see, some letters have gone missing from these words that contain the IE pair at some or the other place. The letters that will be used to fill the blanks are given below. Use them and form meaningful words. Can you do that?

A, C, D, F, H, K, L, M, N, N, O, R, R, S, S, S, T, T, Y and Y.

What do you answer even though it never asks you questions?

What has 88 keys?

A horse was tied to a rope 5 meters long and the horses food was 15 meters away from the horse. How did the horse reach the food?

The more it dries, the wetter it becomes. Can you tell what it is?

A shepherd had 18 sheep, out of which, all but ten died.

Can you tell us how many sheep was he left with?

Which English verb becomes past tense just by rearranging the letters?

A patient was diagnosed with some ailment. He was given five different tablets to take at night at an interval of 15 minutes.

How long will it take the patient to consume all the five tablets?