What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

f you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth, I am dissolved into air. What am I?

What runs around the whole yard without moving?

What can you catch but never throw?

It walks on 4 when its young, walks on 2 when it's older, and walks on 3 when its very old?

John leaves home and then he takes three right turns. John wants to return to home but he was scared of Jacob, who is wearing a mask.

What is John Situation ?

People put me on the table and cut me but do not eat me. What am I?

I speak without a mouth, and hear without ears. I have no-body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?

If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?