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The BrainBashers golf world tour is well underway and Fred is planning the journey to each location.

Unfortunately, the BrainBashers atlas is playing up again and has worked out the mileage incorrectly, as shown below.
Birmingham   47,000
Oslo         18,000
Chicago      32,000
Manhattan    42,000

According to the system, how many miles is it to Sydney?

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At the annual BrainBashers puzzle discussion conference, 20 people attended.

At the start of the conference, each person shook hands with every other person, how many handshakes took place in total?

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Two fine fellows were working very hard all day at the local coal mine.

One of the fellows managed to get a really dirty face, but the other fellow managed to stay clean.

When they reached the end of their day and re-joined the surface in the lift, the fellow with the dirty face simply went home, however, the fellow with the clean face rushed off to wash.

Why?

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Which word is the odd one out?
erah reed yenkom tibbar tac tesomram gip

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