Answer:
Before Mt. Everest was discovered what was the highest mountain in the world?
Everyone asks for me but yet everyone hates to face me. For someone I am agony, for others I am relief! What am I?
I have a few points but we're not competing. I'll help you win when you're eating. What am I?
Crooked as a rainbow and slick as a plate, ten thousand horses can't pull me straight. What am I?
I am black, white, and read all over. What am I?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.