BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 17

What is so unusual about this sentence:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

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Puzzle 18

After a local art theft, six suspects were interviewed.

Below is a summary of their statements.

Police knew that exactly four of them told one lie each, and all the other statements were true.

From this information, can you tell who committed the crime?
Alex said:
   It wasn't Billie
   It wasn't Drew
   It wasn't Emery

Billie said:
   It wasn't Alex
   It wasn't Chris
   It wasn't Emery

Chris said:
   It wasn't Billie
   It wasn't Frankie
   It wasn't Emery

Drew said:
   It wasn't Alex
   It wasn't Frankie
   It wasn't Chris

Emery said:
   It wasn't Chris
   It wasn't Drew
   It wasn't Frankie

Frankie said:
   It wasn't Chris
   It wasn't Drew
   It wasn't Alex

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Puzzle 19

Strong is to weak as

hot is to ?

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Puzzle 20

Can you place a different 4-letter word into each of the brackets to create two longer words.
drift[----]wind home[----]bench foot[----]mother court[----]stick moth[----]room quarter[----]ground space[----]yard wild[----]span your[----]less back[----]fighter
In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case

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