Answer:
What time of day, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards, and upside down?
Ambitious people will climb the social version of this contraption.
Whipping one of these out in the wrong setting is said to be terrible luck.
I am a king but also a common device of measure. What am I?
Soldiers fight it but never changes.
Though not a plant, has leaves. Though not a beast, has spine. Though many wouldn't need this thing, It's more valuable than wine.