I am a seven-letter word but if you remove four of my letters I will have one left. What word am I?

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.

What can run but never walk, have a mouth that never speaks, have a head that never weeps, and have a bed but never sleeps?

A certain street contains 100 buildings. They are numbered from 1 to 100. How many 9's are used in these numbers?

I can sizzle like bacon,
I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole,
I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole.

The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?

Can you name any English verb that becomes its past tense by simply rearranging the alphabets ?

How many letters are in the alphabet?

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

I get hot but I never sweat,
I cook food but I am not a chef,
I have a door but you can't enter me,
I have a light but I am not a lamp.
Who am I?