What country can make you shiver?

What does this rebus mean?

O
N
C
E
TIME

I cannot talk, but I always reply when spoken to. What am I?

For this puzzle, you might have to find logic in something illogical. But hey, it's fun and a healthy little break from your strenuous puzzle-solving sessions.

Can you decipher the meaning in the following cluster of letters?

ITIT,NCENTCENT

As a whole I am both
safe and secure.

Behead me and I become
a place of meeting.

Behead me again and I am
the partner of ready.

Restore me, and I become
the domain of beasts.

What am I?

A Man gave one of his sons 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
Hint: Figure out the relation between time and number, is not so easy..:)

That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant.

But the attorney testified he didn't have a brother.

Who is lying?

Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Bill actually have?

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

Can you complete the sequence puzzle?

AR TA GE CA LE VI LI _