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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 |
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Marker (All the others spell another word when read backwards.) | |
| 2. | 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) | |
| 3. | Santa prefers candy cane to mixed nuts, apple pie to fruitcake, roast turkey to Beef Wellington. Will he prefer mince pies, Dundee cake, or Christmas pudding? |
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Dundee cake (He prefers things with three syllables) | |
| 4. | 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? |
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85 ฿ | |
| 5. | A car covers its outward journey at 66 km/h. It returns, over exactly the same distance, at 33 km/h. What is the car's average speed over the entire journey? |
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44 km/h | |
| 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? |
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400,000 (The alphabetical value of the last letter is multiplied by 100,000) | |
| 7. | 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 | |
| 8. | In a doctors' surgery the first 15 patients were only in the consulting room for an average of three minutes each. After a further 30 people had seen their doctor, the average number of minutes spent in the consulting room increased to nine minutes per patient. What was the average amount of time each of the last 30 patients spent in the consulting room? |
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12 ((((30+15)×9)-(15×3))÷30) | |
| 9. | I am a popular drink. Add one letter and I am a blue-green colour. Change one letter and I am a business agreement. Change another letter and I am a small valley. Change one final letter and I am a percussion instrument. What did I start as, and what did I become? |
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Tea, Bell (Tea, teal, deal, dell, bell.) | |
| 10. | Rearrange the following letters to give two 10-letter words. What are they? A C D E I I M N O T |
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Medication and Decimation | |
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