Answer:
What asks but never answers?
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
You can always see it, but it's too far away to touch. Mountains rest on it, and at sea it surrounds you. What is it?
I am so simple that I can only point. Yet I guide men all over the world.
Never alive but practically extinct. How we miss the letters pressing the ribbon of ink. What is it?
People take me on walks and I run and have fun. What am I?