What goes up but never comes down?

f you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

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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.

A plane crashed between the border of Mexico and America. Where do you bury the survivors?

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

I have a mouth but I don't eat.
I have a bank but have no money.
I have a bed but i dont sleep.
I wave but have no hands.

Who Am I ?

It is deaf, Dumb and Blind!!!

Still, always tells the truth. What is it?

Let's play a word game. Following are some meaningless words that can be completed by adding random letters on either side of the word.

For example, the word "rdo" can be formed into "pardon".

Using the same technique, can you complete the given words?
ecalc
airb
rinci
tibac
uidel
gorit
igna
eyho

I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

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