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Hint
How many minutes are between the times?

Answer
50 minutes.

Reasoning
If we call the number of unknown minutes T.

Between four o'clock and eight o'clock, there are 240 minutes.

There is some point between these two times, before which we have 3 lots of T, and after which we have one lot of T plus 40 minutes.

Therefore, in the 240 minutes, there are 4 lots of T plus 40 minutes.

   240 = 4 x T + 40.

Therefore, T = 50 minutes.

Workings

Hint
How many watch minutes pass in a real hour?

Answer
12:11pm.

Reasoning
The watch now shows 10:39am, so we know that 10 x 60 + 39 = 639 watch minutes have passed.

Since the watch is losing 6 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed, the watch will show 54 minutes.

So, 639 ÷ 54 ≈ 11.8333 real hours have passed.

This equals 710 minutes, which is 11 hours and 50 minutes = 11:50am.

The watch stopped 21 minutes ago, therefore the time must now be 12:11pm.

Workings

Hint
The country spans more than one word.

Answer
Peru.

A popular newspaper printed part of a page that pointed out that port officials use a pencil, not a pen, when they prepare paPER Updates to their port reports.

Workings

Hint
The first in the list would be Hydrogen.

Answer
Fluorine.

These are the elements in atomic number order.