Answer:
Before Mt. Everest was discovered as the highest mountain in the world, which mountain was the highest?
Take it and you will lose or gain more than all the others.
What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
You can carry it everywhere you go, and it does not get heavy. What is it?
Nothing specific, but more than a few. This many clustered, together will do.
How did the farmer find his wife?