Can you solve the below algebraic mathematical equation?

(J+O+I+N+T)3 = JOINT

Here is a mathematical expression that also secretly tells a movie name. What movie is that?

Analyze and find the missing item in the sequence:
16, 06, 68, 88, __, 98

The barber of Town shaves all men living in the town. No man living in the town is allowed to shave himself. The barber lives in that town. Who then shaves the barber of the town?

Which is the rope you never skip with?

If Japan and Panama decided to merge into a single country, probably people will name it Japanama.

Can you think of two more such country's unions that could produce similar names like Japanama by overlapping their three letters?

What goes up but never comes down?

A woman lives in a skyscraper thirty-six floors high and is served by several elevators which stop at each floor going up and down. Each morning she leaves her apartment and goes to one of the elevators. Whichever one she takes is three times more likely to be going up than down. Why?

Can you count the number of squares in the figure below?

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