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

If a wheel has 54 spokes, how many spaces are there between the spokes?

My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?

What have one eye but still cannot see?

Lifeless eyes on my smiling face and watch your child's sleeping place. In their dreams they hold me tight. 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?

It is an eleven letter word.
The first, second, third and fourth letters form a banquet's name.
The fifth, sixth and seventh letters form a car's name.
The eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh letters form a mode of transport.

Can you identify what word it is?

You can find some missing letters in the picture. By placing two particular letters in the spaces, you can form a nine lettered word beginning from one of the corners and going clockwise direction to the middle. Can you find out the letters and the word?

Begin with a word, five letters to my name,
Remove the first and last but I am the same
Take out my middle and still, I remain.
What word am I?