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Puzzle 1 


Here is a well known proverb with the consonants removed. What is the proverb?
A --i--- i- -i-e -a-e- -i-e.

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Puzzle 2 


At my local farmer's merchant, you can buy chicken feed for £4 per tonne, pig feed for £3 per tonne, and cattle feed for 40p per tonne. The feed can only be purchased by the tonne, and part tonnes aren't sold.

Last week I bought some animal feed, and luckily I managed to buy exactly 100 tonnes for exactly £100. How much of each feed did I buy?

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Puzzle 3 


What word comes next:

jangled febrifuge marbles apricot mayflower jungle julienne
Choose from:

augment, elephant, autumn, juiciest

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Puzzle 4 


Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:

The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser-spotted great weevil.

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