Answer:
What relies on columns but isn't a house, and asks for help but can't speak itself?
The more holes you cover the lower it goes.
What has a bottom right at the top?
I am the fountain from which no one can drink. For many I am considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I am sought for, but my continued death brings wealth for all to want more.
As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, I am the partner of ready. Restore me, I become the domain of beasts.
What goes up the hill and down the hill, And spite of all, yet stand still?
Difficult
Animal
Easy
Food
Funny
Kids
Logic
What am I?