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Workings

Hint
Adults have fewer bones than children.

Answer
Days in a year.

There are usually around 206 bones in an adult human body, and 365 or 366 days in a year.

Workings

Hint
Is a million grains of sand a heap?

Answer
We can probably agree on two things:

A million grains of sand is a heap.
If we remove one grain of sand from this heap, we will still have a heap.
We can now keep repeating (2) until we only have a single grain of sand remaining.

Is this a heap? Clearly not. But what went wrong with our thinking?

This is called the Sorites paradox (soros being Greek for "heap") and is a classic paradox that has no real answer.

Both (1) and (2) are true, and we can indeed keep removing one grain of sand until we have a single grain remaining. If we remove one more grain, we're left with nothing, is this still a heap?

When does the heap become a non-heap?

Workings

Hint
Try working backwards.

Answer
15.

Reasoning
One quarter of 360 is 90.

One third of 90 is 30.

One half of 30 is 15.

Workings

Hint
Look at the letter positions in the alphabet.

Answer
R.

If you take the alphabetic positions of each letter in a row, the total is always 56.

Double-Checking
Y + G + W + A = 25 +  7 + 23 +  1 = 56
K + L + R + O = 11 + 12 + 18 + 15 = 56
Z + J + P + D = 26 + 10 + 16 +  4 = 56
V + F + T + H = 22 +  6 + 20 +  8 = 56