Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000?

During a secret mission, an agent gave the following code to the higher authorities
AIM DUE OAT TIE MOD

However, the information is in one word only and the rest are fake. To assist the authorities in understanding better, he also sent them a clue, If I tell you any one character of the code, you can easily find out the number of vowels in the codeword.

Can you find out the code word?

A Miser man decided to go on a vacation for a month. He goes to the bank and asks for a trip loan of $500. The bank officer asks the man that the loan can only be approved when he mortgage some valuable thing at the bank. Miser man mortgages his only car whose worth was a whopping $80000. The Bank officer laughed at him and approve the loan instantly. After vacation when the miser man returns, the bank officer asked him "Are you an idiot, why is your mortgage such an expensive car for such a short loan?".

Miser man replied with some reason and the bank officer agreed that the miser man is actually not an idiot.

What did miser man reply to the bank loan officer?.

The person who makes it has no need for it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

What does a man do only once in his lifetime, but women do once a year after they are 29?

Make eight squares by moving only two matchsticks.
Note- Square can be of different sizes.

What does this rebus picture identify?

Can you find a five letter word that is left with only two letters if one is removed?

In a chess board, the queen piece can move horizontally, vertically and diagonally freely. The picture represents the same.Can you place 8 queens on the board in a manner that none of the queens can attack each other?

Cristina learnt how to ride a horse recently. Just to test her skills, she rode the horse from her home to a mine which she covered in three minutes and returned home from the same path only this time she took four minutes. The reason was that while riding away from home, she was supported by the wind however while riding back, she was riding against the wind.

How fast do you think she could have ridden a mile if there was no wind?