Answer:
You walk into a room with a rabbit holding a carrot, a pig eating slop, and a chimp holding a banana. Who is the smartest animal in the room?
When I am caught I am thrown away. When I escape you itch all day.
I wiggle and cannot see; sometimes underground and sometimes on a tree. I really don't want to be on a hook and I become a person when combined with “book”.
Glittering points that downward thrust. Sparkling spears that never rust. What am I?
I will disappear every time you say my name.
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.