How can a person go eight days without sleep?

If you are running in a race and pass the second-place person, what place are you in?

How many days in a week start with the letter T?

You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?

If I stand on top of a hill and ring a loud bell between two houses. Which house will hear the bell first?

I am a container with no sides and no lid, yet golden treasure lays inside. What am I?

I am always hungry. I must be fed. Whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?

If you look in water you might see me yet I never get wet. What am I?

Everyone has me except for a few. You may not be able to identify me but I can always identify you. What am I?

What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?