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

A donkey is behind another donkey
I'm behind that second donkey
But there is a whole nation behind me

It is a murder you can describe in a word.

If I remove one from eleven it becomes Ten and if I remove one from nine also becomes Ten. How?

How high do you have to count before you use the letter “a” in the English spelling of the whole number?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it?

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

Two natural numbers have a sum of less than 100 and are greater than one.

John knows the product of the numbers and Jacob knows the sum of numbers.

The following conversation takes place between them:
John: 'I am not aware of those numbers.'
Jacob: 'I knew you wouldn't be. I am not aware myself.'
John: 'Now I know them!'
Jacob: 'Now I know them, too!'

What are the two numbers?

What word begins and ends with an E, but has only one letter?

What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?