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| 1. | Place two letters at the end of each word to make a 5-letter word so that, when completed, an 8-letter word can be read in the missing letters from top to bottom. What is it? PIA _ _ SLA _ _ CLI _ _ EAG _ _ |
| 2. | Insert the missing vowels and spaces in the following to reveal a well-known proverb: PPRNCSCNBDCPTV |
| 3. | 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? |
| 4. | A clock currently shows 3:35. If rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, what time will it show? |
| 5. | 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? |
| 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. | What number should replace the question mark below? |
| 8. | Two racing cars cross the finish line side-by-side. The second-placed car is travelling at 270 km/h and crosses the line 1/100th of a second behind the first. How many centimetres did the first car finish ahead of the second? |
| 9. | What comes last in this sequence? 7, 8, 5, 5, 3, 4, 4, 6, 9, 7, 8, _? |
| 10. | Which of the dice on the right correctly completes the pattern on the left? |
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