Puzzle 1
What comes next in this sequence:
iron · bromine · uranium · argon · ?
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Hint
The chemical symbol for iron is Fe.
Answer
Yttrium.
The element's symbols are spelling February:
iron (Fe) + bromine (Br) + uranium (U) + argon (Ar) + yttrium (Y)
Puzzle 3
If you are running in a marathon, and you overtake the person in last place …
… what position are you now in?
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Who is in last place?
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This cannot happen, you cannot overtake the person who is in last place, as there is no-one behind them!
Overtaking = passing someone who is ahead on the same lap, this is a change of position, e.g. 4th moves up to 3rd.
Lapping = passing someone who is a full lap behind, this isn't a change of position, e.g. 4th stays 4th.
Puzzle 4
At a recent BrainBashers party, I noted the ages of the children who attended.
Billie was 3, James and Keith were 4, Frankie and Rebecca were 5.
How old was Lara?
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Look at the vowels (AEIOU).
Answer
2.
Consonants are worth 2 and vowels (AEIOU) are worth − 1.
