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Last week I travelled from London to Leeds, a distance I measured as 174 miles.

I started at 9.15am and completed the journey with an average speed of 40 miles per hour.

On the way back, in the evening, I travelled exactly the same route, starting at 5.15pm. The traffic was light, and I completed the journey with an average speed of 60 miles per hour.

What was the overall average speed for the round trip?

The answer is not 50 mph.

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Can you complete these common 5-letter words?
-s-g- --r-f -zu-- e--x- -p--c --ln- -w--m ---jo q---a -v-k- i--h- -b-y- --dt-

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Without using any reference material can you find the hidden countries?

In each case, the letter indicates the first letter of the country in question, the number represents the number of letters in the country.

For example, E7 would be England.
B10 E5 F4 F7 J5 L13 N9 S11 T7 Z6

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What number comes next in this sequence:

1 · 3 · 6 · 11 · 18 · ?

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