BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 1

Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:

At school, most of my friends learnt French. I learnt Chinese, mainly because I planned to visit the area when I grew up.

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Puzzle 2

Yesterday I was asked to buy some stamps.

Stamps, in the land of BrainBashers, are available in 2p, 7p, 10p, 15p and 20p denominations.

For three types of stamp, I was asked to buy five of each.

For the other two types of stamps, I was asked to buy six of each.

Unfortunately, I forgot which I was supposed to buy five of and which to buy six of.

I had been given £3.00, which just happened to be the exact money required, so the shopkeeper was able to work out what stamps I needed.

Which stamps did I buy?

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Puzzle 3

Which is larger:

seconds in a year. miles that light can travel in 3 minutes.

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Puzzle 4

Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words. There are currently 2 different answers, can you find them both?
ap--e b-a-e bo--d -an-c -ro-e --ell -ra-y bu-c- -o-ra -umb- s-ua- lo--l g-es-

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