Week 19 - Thursday

May 8, 2015, 8:00 am

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Week 19 - Thursday

A fire engine travels seven miles to a fire at a speed of 36mph.

Its tank holds 500 gallons of water but it’s been leaking throughout the journey at a rate of 22.5 gallons per hour.

If the fire engine needs 497 gallons of water to put out the fire, will it succeed?

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Answer:

No, it will be 1.375 gallons short.

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Mon, 11/05/2015

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Week 20 - Monday

May 11, 2015, 2:06 am

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Week 20 - Monday

What number should replace the question mark?

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Answer:

Five. The sector totals increase by two each time.

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Thu, 14/05/2015

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Week 20 - Thursday

May 14, 2015, 1:15 am

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Week 20 - Thursday

The alphabet is written here but some letters are missing.

Arrange the missing letters to give a word.

What is it?

B D F H I J K L M N P Q S U V W X Z

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Answer:

Category.

Date answer published:

Mon, 18/05/2015

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Week 21 - Monday

May 18, 2015, 12:45 am

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Week 21 - Monday

Find words to fit the clues. Each group of crosses should be replaced with the same three letter word.

What are the words?

_ X X X _ _ _	Break into pieces
_ X X X _ _	A roof covering
_ _ _ X X X _ _	Express forcibly

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Answer:

Shatter, thatch and emphatic

Date answer published:

Thu, 21/05/2015

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Week 21 - Thursday

May 22, 2015, 3:42 am

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Week 21 - Thursday

What letter should replace the question mark?

PTD FYS KNC BTR M?H

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Answer:

U. In each group, the alphabetical values of the two outer letters are added together to give the alphabetical value of the centre letter.

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Mon, 25/05/2015

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Week 22 - Monday

May 26, 2015, 4:04 am

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Week 22 - Monday

Rearrange the order of the following words and place one on each row of the grid.

If placed correctly the names of two cheeses will be read down the shaded columns.

What are they?

LAGOON ICICLE TARTAN NEGATE TARIFF OYSTER SECRET

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Answer:

Stilton and Ricotta.

Date answer published:

Thu, 28/05/2015

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Week 22 - Thursday

May 28, 2015, 12:53 am

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Week 22 - Thursday

What number should replace the question mark in the grid?

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Answer:

One. Along each row the first number, multiplied by the second number gives the third number. The third number minus the fourth number gives the fifth number.

Date answer published:

Mon, 01/06/2015

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Week 23 - Monday

June 1, 2015, 1:49 am

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Week 23 - Monday

In the box provided place a five letter word that can be attached to the beginning of the given words to form six longer words.

What is the word?

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Answer:

Black.

Date answer published:

Thu, 04/06/2015

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Week 23 - Thursday

June 9, 2015, 6:48 am

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Week 23 - Thursday

The following words all have something in common. What is it?

REMIT MAPS LIVE PINS

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Answer:

They all give another word reading backwards, timer, spam, evil and snip.

Date answer published:

Mon, 08/06/2015

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Week 24 - Monday

June 9, 2015, 6:51 am

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Week 24 - Monday

What number should replace the question mark in the grid?

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Answer:

Four. Every row totals 20.

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Thu, 11/06/2015

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Week 24 - Thursday

June 11, 2015, 12:49 am

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Week 24 - Thursday

A log of bird numbers visiting a garden is as follows.

Crow	20
Blackbird	2
Pheasant	4
Chaffinch	5
Sparrow	?

How many Sparrows visited?

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Answer:

Four. The alphabetical value of the last letter minus the alphabetical value of the first letter gives the number.

Date answer published:

Mon, 15/06/2015

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Week 25 - Monday

June 15, 2015, 12:52 am

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Week 25 - Monday

17 people rated a product and gave it an average of only 2 out of 10.

After improvements 15 of them retested the product and the average score rose to 5 out of 10.

What was the average score given on the retest?

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Answer:

8.4

Date answer published:

Thu, 18/06/2015

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Week 25 - Thursday

June 18, 2015, 1:01 am

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Week 25 - Thursday

A well-known proverb has been split up into groups.

Rearrange the groups to form the proverb.

ERULE ESTH PROV THEE TION XCEP

What is it?

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Answer:

The exception proves the rule.

Date answer published:

Mon, 22/06/2015

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Week 26 - Monday

June 22, 2015, 5:34 am

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Week 26 - Monday

What number is missing in this sequence?

0 3 8 15 24 35 48 ?

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Answer:

63. The numbers are square numbers minus one.

Date answer published:

Thu, 25/06/2015

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Week 26 - Thursday

June 29, 2015, 1:25 am

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Week 26 - Thursday

Rearrange the letters of ‘ANIMAL SUCCESS CORRECTED’ to give two cakes.

What are they?

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Answer:

Cream scone and custard slice.

Date answer published:

Mon, 29/06/2015

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Week 27 - Monday

June 29, 2015, 1:30 am

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Week 27 - Monday

Clock A was correct at midnight. From that moment it began to lose four minutes per hour.

The clock stopped two hours ago showing clock B. What is the correct time now? The clock runs for less than 24 hours.

A		B
00:00		14:00

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Answer:

17:00 or 5pm.

Date answer published:

Thu, 02/07/2015

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Week 27 - Thursday

July 2, 2015, 12:58 am

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Week 27 - Thursday

If Manchester reached 31C, Glasgow reached 30C, Southampton reached 33C and even Inverness reached 28C.

What temperature did Leicester reach?

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Answer:

30C. The alphabetical values of the first and last letters are added together to give the temperature.

Date answer published:

Mon, 06/07/2015

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Week 28 - Monday

July 6, 2015, 2:26 am

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Week 28 - Monday

Move from square to touching square to find the longest possible word. What is it?

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Answer:

Environmentalist.

Date answer published:

Thu, 09/07/2015

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Week 28 - Thursday

July 9, 2015, 2:36 am

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Week 28 - Thursday

Rearrange the following letters to give two seven-letter words.

A E N O R S T

What are they?

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Answer:

Treason and senator.

Date answer published:

Mon, 13/07/2015

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Week 29 - Monday

July 13, 2015, 1:12 am

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Week 29 - Monday

What number should replace the question mark in the grid?

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Answer:

Three. Minus each row from the row above to get the row below.

Date answer published:

Thu, 16/07/2015

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