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

I never stop running even when I standstill. If I am formed by joining two identical bodies together, can you guess who I am?

I never was there, I am always to be.
You have never ever seen me, not ever you will.
Yet I am the confidence of everyone.

Who Am I?

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

What is it?

When a clock is observed, the hour hand is at a minute mark and the minutes hand is six minutes ahead of it.

When the clock is observed again after some time, the hour hand is precisely on a different minute mark and the minute hand is seven minutes ahead of it.

Can you calculate how much time has elapsed between the two observations?

How old is your son? asked a man to his neighbour. My son is five times as old as my daughter and my wife is five times as old as my son. I am twice as old as my wife whereas my grandmother, who is celebrating her eighty-first birthday is as old as all of us put together.

How old is the man's son ?

I travel all around the world but always stay in the corner. What am I?

I am a five-letter word under you,
Remove the first letter and I am above you,
Remove the second as well and I am around you.

Who am I?