Answer:
A precious fluid, thicker than water.
What goes up but never comes down?
Not a burden for its weight and daily carried out, He who takes it wishes it had never come about
What word is the same written forward, backward and upside down?
When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?
As round as an apple. As deep as a cup. All the king's horses can't pull it up.