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| 1. | What letter completes this sequence? B F J P _ |
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V (They are the letters that follow the vowels in the alphabet.) | |
| 2. | 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) | |
| 3. | What number is missing in this sequence? 5 4 12 11 33 32 ? 95 285 |
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96 (Minus one then multiply by three, and repeat.) | |
| 4. | What number is missing in the following sequence? |
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96 (Minus one, then multiply by three, and repeat.) | |
| 5. | In a spelling test consisting of 20 words, John spelt only two correctly at the first attempt. After learning the spellings he tried the same 20 words again. If his average over the two attempts was nine, how many of the 20 words did he spell correctly on the second attempt? |
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16 | |
| 6. | Find words to fit the clues. Each group of crosses are replaced with the same three-letter word. What three-letter word replaces XXX? a. _ _ X X X (Expression of indifference) b. _ X X X _ _ (Economical) c. _ X X X _ _ _ (A South American country) |
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RUG (a. Shrug b. Frugal c. Uruguay) | |
| 7. | Replace the blanks in the following sentence with two three letter words. The same three letters must be used for both words. What are they? The man decided to BLANK a well-known firm of solicitors to BLANK for compensation. |
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Use / Sue | |
| 8. | Karen is a baker, Elsie is a clerk and Ruben is a nurse. Is Linda an actor, a nanny, or a pilot? |
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Pilot (The first two letters of the name are the third and second letters of the profession.) | |
| 9. | Bus timetable: What time does the bus to Songkhla depart? Krabi - 11:18 Lampang - 12:01 Phuket - 16:08 Rayong - 18:01 Songkhla - |
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19:15 (The alphabetical value of the first letter gives the hour and the alphabetical value of the second letter gives the minutes.) | |
| 10. | At a party everyone shook hands with everyone else. In total, there were 66 handshakes. How many people were at the party? |
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12 (11+10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1=66) | |
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