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| 1. | On each row, place a three letter word that can be attached to the end of the word to the left, and to the beginning of the word to the right, to give a longer word in each case. When completed, the initial letters of the three letter words will give another word reading downwards. What is it? SEE _ _ _DUST AM _ _ _ LESS WING _ _ _ POWER PLUM _ _ _ HOD WEEK _ _ _ OWED OVER _ _ _ AROUND |
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SUMMER (SAW, USE, MAN, MET, END, RUN) | |
| 2. | If the day before the day before yesterday was three days after Wednesday, what day would it be today? |
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Tuesday | |
| 3. | If 5,10,7,7,21,7 is the code for CHEESE, what are the following sandwich fillings? 10,3,15 7,9,9 22,23,16,3 21,10,20,11,15,18 |
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Ham, egg, tuna, shrimp (Each letter has been replaced by its alphabetical value plus two) | |
| 4. | Four different villages lie along a straight highway. The third village is 60km away from the first village; the fourth is 40 km away from the second; the third is 10 km nearer to the fourth than it is to the second. What is the distance between the first and fourth villages? |
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75 km | |
| 5. | What single 5-letter word goes before fly, and after race to make one 8-letter and one 9-letter word? |
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Horse (Horse-fly / Racehorse) | |
| 6. | Which of the following words is the odd one out? WON BUS SET TAP BUT BOY |
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SET (. The others give another word reading backwards.) | |
| 7. | What comes last in this chronological sequence: TCOTBP DMC |
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DMTNT (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Dead Man's Chest (2006) At World's End (2007) On Stranger Tides (2011) Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)) | |
| 8. | If 11 + 3 = 2, 12 + 1 = 1, 6 + 4 = 10, and 9 + 7 = 4, what does 7 + 6 = ? |
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1 (on a clock) | |
| 9. | A car has travelled 240 miles at 60 mph. It began its journey with a full tank of 12 gallons, but the tank has been leaking throughout the journey and is now empty. The car ran at 40 miles per gallon. How many gallons of fuel does it leak per hour? |
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1½ | |
| 10. | Find an 11-letter word to fit each clue. All three words begin and end with 'H'. What are the words? a) A root vegetable b) Very small margin c) A textile pattern |
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a) Horseradish b) Hairbreadth c) Houndstooth | |
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