Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

I have a head like a cat and feet like a cat, but I am not a cat. What am I?

I live in a bowl. I can swim. I have a tail. I also have fins and big eyes. What am I?

My first is in chocolate but not in ham. My second is in cake and also in jam. My third at tea time is easily found. Altogether, this is a friend who is often around. What is it?

One day, John and his friends were playing around. Jacob hit something with a Pin and it popped. John's dad came into the room that very moment, but he wasn't mad. In fact, he was smiling. What did Jacob hit?

John was piloting a plane behind a car but was never able to overtake it. Why?

How can you write nineteen in a manner that if we take out one, it becomes twenty?

Count the number of times the letter "F" appears in the following paragraph:

FAY FRIED FIFTY POUNDS OF
SALTED FISH AND THREE POUNDS
OF DRY FENNEL FOR DINNER FOR
FORTY MEMBERS OF HER FATHER'S FAMILY.