By using 'because' continuously three times, can you make an English statement ?

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

There was an aeroplane crash, every single person died, but two people survived. How is this possible?

Solve the following series:
AZ, GT, MN, __, YB

A wooden log balances equally on the scales when weighed with three-quarters of a pound and three-quarters of a wooden log.

Can you calculate the weight of the entire wooden log?

You have a three-gallon and a five-gallon measuring device. You wish to measure out four gallons.

Here is what you have to do. You have to throw a ball as hard as you can but it must return back to you even if it does not bounce at anything. Also, you have nothing attached to the ball. There is no one on the other end to catch that ball and throw it back at you.

How will you do it?

Jenifer and Jesica are having a conversation.

Jenifer: I am definitely not over 30.
Jesica: I am 28 and you are surely 5 years older to me at least.
Jenifer: No, you are at least 29.

You are told that both of them are lying throughout in the conversation. Can you find their respective ages?

Take away my first letter, then take away my second letter. Then take away the rest of my letters, yet I remain the same. What am I?

Eight of us go fourth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we?