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If even numbers are blue and odd numbers are red, what colour is red + red? A-BLUE B-RED

A: Blue. Two odd numbers always make an even number so two red make a blue.

Amlan is very particular about how he lays out the apps on his home screen. Which of these completes Amlan’s layout? (clue: Idiomatic phrase about not worrying about things that have passed)

C: MILK. [The logos on the apps spell out DON’T CRY OVER SPILT… and so MILK completes the sequence.]

Serena is about to cast a vote for her local council. She picks the candidate with a name that is an anagram of ‘electoral system’. Who does she vote for?

B: Scarlett Moseley. It’s the only name that has any 'S's.

Shanti is bored and removes her sunglasses, keys, pen, train ticket and lipstick from her handbag, puts them in alphabetical order and takes a photo from above. Which of these is the correct photo?

B. [In alphabetical order, it goes Keys, Lipstick, Pen, Sunglasses, and Train Ticket.]

Which of these does not make a word when the letters are placed in reverse order? (A) STUN, (B) DUST, (C) SNUB

B: DUST. [DUST reversed is TSUD, which isn’t a word.]

Without reordering any letters, how many animals appear in the sequence? P H E A S A N T O R T O I S E A L I O N

6. PHEASANT, SEALION, ANT, SEAL, TORTOISE and LION. [Yes, ants are animals.]

Starting at 1, the first 10 odd numbers add up to 100. What do the first 10 even numbers add up to?

110. 2 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 10 + 12 + 14 + 16 + 18 + 20 = 110 OR you could just add 10 to 100 as each even number is 1 higher than the previous odd number.

What two letters can be placed in front of the following five words to create five new common words?

D and R. [Adding ‘DR’ to these words becomes DRAPED, DRINK, DRONE, DROWNED, and DROUGHT.

What weather-related idiomatic phrase is represented here? Emperor Tiger. King Tabby. Queen Spaniel. Empress Labrador.

Raining cats and dogs. Emperor, king, queen, and empress all ‘reign’. Tiger and tabby are cats and spaniel and labrador are dogs.

The answers to each of these clues all use the same three letters but in different orders. What are those three letters?

O, W, N. (OWN, NOW, WON)

What word replaces the question mark?

GREEN. The words in each box dictate the colour of the next box.

These are all the UK coins in order of size from smallest to largest. How many stay in the same position when they are laid out in value order from lowest to highest instead?

One. The 2 pound coin which is the largest.

What sport does this represent?

GOLF

Alistair’s dream celebrity dinner party would be Cameron Diaz, Ella Fitzgerald and Glenn Hoddle. What is Alistair’s surname?

D - all the initials are consecutive, so it needs to begin with the letter B.

Which of the words that follow this sentence don’t follow the word “follow” in this question?

D.

How many squares make up this pattern?

4

What board game is represented here?

Scrabble. S + CRAB + BALL.

Lee always paints a circle. Lee never paints squares. Lee always paints four triangles. Which of these is one of Lee’s paintings? A, B, or C?

A.

Four people are in a maze trying to reach the centre. Which of them is going the wrong way? A, B, C, or D?

B.

Sorting 52 playing cards into alphabetical order. Starting with the ACE of CLUBS, ACE of DIAMONDS, ACE of HEARTS and ACE of SPADES are the first four cards you place on the table. Carrying on this sequence, what would be the LAST card?

TWO of SPADES.

If you change the letter at the beginning of the first word, the letter in the middle of the second word and the letter at the end of the third word, they all now have something in common. What is it?

Clothes. You can change CAT to HAT, BOATS to BOOTS, and SCARE to SCARF. (Yes, there are other word possibilities but only these link the words together)

In the word puzzle, what four words replace the question mark? (idiom to do with two people coming up with the same idea)

Great minds think alike.

What number replaces the question mark in the following sequence? 7 8 5 5 3 4 4 ? 9 7 8 8

6. The sequence is the number of letters in the names of the months in a calendar year. The question mark represents August and there are six letters in August.

How many pairs of anagrams are there in the following sentence? Alice, Dan, Celia and Enid hoped to dine well on the plane from Nepal.

4. [Alice & Celia, Dan & and, Enid & dine, plane & Nepal.]

Below is the recipe for a Big Mack burger. If I have nine whole buns, nine cheese slices, eight tomato slices, and ten patties, what is the maximum number of Big Mack burgers I can make?

5. Each burger has two patties so ten patties limit the number of burgers to five. [The buns are cut in half!]

Which of the following words is still a recognised word if you substitute the first letter for the next letter in the alphabet and the last letter for the previous letter in the alphabet?

(C) CREST. [The instructions would turn this word into DRESS.]

If there were no vowels at all, what would be the 13th letter of the alphabet?

Q. The list goes B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P and Q.

Have a look at this bathroom floor covered in square tiles. If each square tile features eight triangles, how many square tiles were used to cover this floor?

20. It's a 4 by 5 grid.

Eight people are in a circle, either standing up (U) or sitting down (D) as shown below. Everyone who is standing up sits down and vice versa. How many people are now standing?

5. Those sitting have stood up.