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| .5. It's a cow - head to the right of the picture, looking towards the camera. | |
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| .10. Hull City. | |
| .11. Turn on one switch, and leave it switched on for a minute or two before switching off again. Now turn on another switch and enter the room. The first bulb will still be warm, and another bulb will be switched on. The third bulb belongs to the switch you haven't touched. | |
| .12. The mast of the boat behind the one in the foreground goes behind the white motorboat further away. | |
| .13. This is in fact a trick. The gradients of the red and dark green triangles are not the same. The best way to see this is to look at the missing square in the lower illustration. Go up 2 squares and see the small area of white in the square through which the red triangle passes. Compare this with the same location in the upper picture - there's quite a difference. The cumulative area gained by this and other affected squares is equal to a whole square. | |
| .16. Until the age of around 6 months a baby can drink and breathe simultaneously. | |
| .17. HIDEOUS - HIDEOUT | |
| .18. 7. JANUARY = 7 letters, FEBRUARY = 8 letters, MARCH = 5 letters etc. | |
| .20. Just place the coins on any two squares of the same colour. Since a domino will take up one dark and one light square, the number of free squares of each colour must be the same. If you cover two squares of the same colour your opponent is left with 30 + 32 squares. | |
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The only numbers on the dart board you need to hit
are the 16 and 17. Hit the 16 twice and the 17 four times: 16 x 2 = 32 and 17 x 4 = 68 32 + 68 = 100 |
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38. All of the others can be spelled
out using the letters of INTERCHANGEABILITY (without using any letter
more than once); THREE, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, THIRTEEN, THIRTY, THIRTY-NINE, EIGHTY, EIGHTY-NINE, NINETY and NINETY-EIGHT. "THIRTY-EIGHT" requires an additional letter T. |
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| .28. IRK becomes VEX | |
| .29. Without the sophisticated electronic navigational aids available to modern shipping, historical pirates (like all vessel captains) relied on the stars to guide them while sailing at night. By keeping one eye covered during the day it became extremely sensitive to light. As a result, pirates who wore an eye patch developed excellent night vision and could pick out stars even with moderate cloud cover. | |
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This is a
tough one! Pairs are
formed by taking the letters of one word and moving them all along the
alphabet by 6 letters, so we end up with: CHAIN / INGOT - MILLS / SORRY - MOCHA / SUING - VIOLA / BOURG - MUNCH / SATIN - WOMBS / CUSHY (VIOLA / BOURG and WOMBS / CUSHY necessitate re-starting at the beginning of the alphabet). The remaining word is LORRY, whose associated word would be FILLS. |
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.32.
The items cost $1.20, $1.25, $1.50
and $3.16. Just out of interest, although this solution is unique there is another which comes very close: $1.01, $1.15, $2.41 and $2.54, which comes to $7.1100061 - chances are the cashier would agree to round it down! |
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.33.
Suppose your chosen number was 8185. Arranged in
increasing and decreasing order you get 1588 and 8851. 8851 - 1588 = 7263.
Arranged again, you get 2367 and 7632. 7632 - 2367 = 5265. Let's keep
going... 1) 5265 (6552 - 2556 = 3996) Step 4 is what gets us into the loop by exploiting the fact that subtracting 1467 from 7641 gives us 6174, an arrangement of the same four digits. No-one has offered a reason why we always end up with the digits 1, 4, 6 and 7 and thereby enter the loop. |
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| .34. The answer is 1.618033989 | |
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.35. 1 There are two possibilities depending on your chosen side of the Atlantic. In the UK it's 105 (ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE), in America 1005 (ONE THOUSAND FIVE) 2 EIGHTY-EIGHT 3 There are just 8: TWO, THREE, SIX, SEVEN, TEN, ELEVEN, TWELVE and SEVENTEEN 4 There are 16: ZERO, ONE, TWO, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, EIGHT, TEN, FORTY, FORTY-SIX, SIXTY, SIXTY-ONE, SIXTY-FOUR, EIGHTY, EIGHTY-FOUR, and FIVE THOUSAND 5 FORTY |
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Bowled,
stumped, run out, caught, hit wicket, leg before wicket, hitting the ball
twice, handling the ball, timed out*, obstructing the field**. *When a batsman is given out, his replacement must arrive at the crease within 3 minutes. **The batsman obstructs a member of the fielding team who is attempting to get him out. |
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Split the diagram thus, then slide the blue segment one square across to the right and two squares upwards to eliminate the empty space in the middle. |
