Answer:
There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
My first is in window but not in pane. My second's in road but not in lane. My third is in oval but not in round. My fourth is in hearing but not in sound. My whole is known as a sign of peace. And from noah's ark won quick release.
I am so simple that I can only point. Yet I guide men all over the world.
This only turns over once you have traveled very far. What is it?
My first half is normally made of stone, my second is crazy, and I taste sweet when complete.
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?