Logic Riddles

Question: Which eight-letter word still remains a word after removing each letter from it?

Question: what can go up a chimney down but cant go down a chimney up

Question: Nary a tick, nary a tock- silent, silent, the handless clock. Tarry no longer; cast off all doubt. The sands of time are running out.

Question: A wise person was once sentenced to death by a king. The king couldn't decide how to execute him so he said to the wise person, you can say anything you want, if it is true, I will hang you, if it is not true I will shoot you. In the end the king released the wise man. What did the wise man say?

Question: New York In the The Spring What is wrong here?