Can you find a five letter word that is left with only two letters if one is removed?

Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Do you know of a place where the wind blows south and then suddenly shifts direction towards the north?

I can be made.
I can be cracked.
I can be told.
I can be played.

Who am I?

Whats the next number in the below number sequence pattern.

Name one eight-letter word with 'kst' in the middle, 'in' the beginning, 'and' at the end.?

Assume the given figure to be a delicious doughnut. Yes, now you can concentrate more on the puzzle. So you have this delicious doughnut in your refrigerator when your friends come knocking at the door. There are eight of them. Now you have to make three cuts in this doughnut so that each one of you nine people can enjoy a piece of it. Neither you nor your friends would mind the size of their piece as long as they are getting it. How will you do it?

From a pack of 52 cards, I placed 4 cards on the table.

I will give you 4 clues about the cards:

Clue 1: Card on left cannot be greater than the card on the right.
Clue 2: Difference between the 1st card and 3rd card is 8.
Clue 3: There is no card of an ace.
Clue 4: There are no face cards (queen, king, jacks).
Clue 5: Difference between the 2nd card and 4th card is 7.

Identify four cards?

How can you make number one disappear by adding something to it?

I am 5 letters long.
My first two tell you who I am
My first 3 could be a medicine
My last three reversed could be a young boy.
My 4th, 3rd and 2nd in that order could be a fruit drink.
If you have me you may hang me round your neck
WHAT AM I ?