Simple riddles with simple answers

What word looks the same backwards and upside down?

Branches grow on its head; it wears spotted clothes. Not a donkey of a horse, it runs like the wind.

I am in a land where thirty men and two women were dressed in classic black and white dress. They began to fight as soon as any of them moves. Where am I ?

What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

What does man love more than life, Fear more than death or mortal strife. What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire. What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves, And all men carry to their graves?

What letter is a drink?

It has only two bones, but there are 1000s of ribs. What is that?

Re-arrange the letters, O O U S W T D N E J R to spell just one word.

There is a word and six letters it contains. Take one away and twelve is what remains. What word is it?

It always becomes white when it becomes dirty. What is that?