What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?

There is a place where if I stand up straight, I will still be considered sideways.

No one wants to have it, but if one got it, he does not want to lose it. What is It?

Akbar called Birbal and asked him to draw a line on the floor. He asked Birbal to make that line smaller without erasing it. Birbal smiled and did it before Akbar could blink his eyes.

How did he managed to do it?

I have four wings but can't fly.
I express no emotions.
I am found on the exact spot every time you look.
I keep toiling away with a little sound.

Do you know what am I?

When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?

You enter your friend's room. He is not in his room. Although you see that on the bed there are two dogs, five cats, two giraffes and three pigs. Also, a couple of chickens and ducks are flying in the room.

Calculate the number of legs standing on the floor.

Analyze and find the missing item in the sequence:
16, 06, 68, 88, __, 98

In the given figure, move three matchsticks so that the resulting figure contains two rectangles.

Sherlock Holmes was challenged to make a pre-drawn line smaller without erasing it. He did it in fractions of seconds. How?