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| 1. | Six of these words have something in common. Which one does not belong? DRAWER KNITS MARKER SPAM SPINS TIMER WARTS |
| 2. | What comes last in this sequence: |
| 3. | Three volumes of Lord of the Rings sit in order on a shelf. Each is 30 mm thick, with 26 mm of pages and 2 mm for each cover. A bookworm munches from page 1 of the first volume through to the last page of the third volume. How far does it travel? |
| 4. | In a row of seven houses, each house has a different colour front door. The white door is between the purple door and the red door. There are two houses between the blue door and the purple door. The yellow door is the last in the row. The orange door is next to the blue door. The house between the orange door and the purple door has a green front door. The first house in the row does not have a red front door. What is the order of the front doors? |
| 5. | At a party everyone shook hands with everyone else. In total, there were 66 handshakes. How many people were at the party? |
| 6. | At Christmas, 1,300,000 people visited Stockholm, 1,500,000 visited Oslo, 900,000 visited Helsinki, and 1,400,000 visited Copenhagen. How many visited Lapland? |
| 7. | 2 SangSom and 2 Chang = 290 ฿ 2 Singha, 1 Chang, and 1 SangSom = 345 ฿ 1 SangSom and 1 Singha = 160 ฿ How much is 1 Chang? |
| 8. | Paul is the youngest of a group of seven people. Brian is older than James and Stuart but younger than John. James is older than Andy but younger than Stuart. Michael is older than Brian but younger than John. Put the seven in order of age, oldest first. |
| 9. | In a footrace, Brian was neither first nor last. Debbie beat Brian. Brian beat John. Chris was neither first nor last. Chris beat James. John beat Chris. Who came in last? |
| 10. | On each row place a letter that can be substituted for the fourth letter of the words either side, to give another word in each case. When completed, a word will be read downwards. What is it? LIVID _ CLUBS SPECK _ BREED BRICK _ CHEAT MUSHY _ DARES ALLOY _ PINTS THESE _ SCOPE |
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