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Puzzle 5
Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:
After many years studying in the field of astrophysics, the boffin landed a plum job with the National Space Agency, where he became a leading figure in the area of quasars.
Puzzle 6
What letter is missing from this sequence:
A · B · G · D · E · ? · E
Puzzle 7
Below is a grid which should contain boy's names. The missing letters for a particular column are listed at the top of that column. Can you 'drop' the missing letters in and complete the grid?
Puzzle 8
After visiting one of my very old relatives, I travelled home in their old jalopy. The car was old and battered, it had a leak from the petrol tank, and I was stuck in second gear.
This meant that I could only travel along at a steady 30 miles per hour and managed a paltry 20 miles per gallon of fuel.
At the start of the journey, I had placed exactly 10 gallons of fuel into the tank. I knew though, that the fuel tank lost fuel at the rate of half a gallon per hour.
Just as I arrived home, the car stopped because it had run out of fuel and I had only just made it.
How far was it from my relative's house to my home?