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April 2013

What word can be placed in front of the

five words shown to form, in each case,

another word?

A

H

O

L

B

B

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U

O

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R S E

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A

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Each colour in our code Q5 DOUBLE BARRELLED
represents a letter. When you
have cracked the code, you will
be able to make up seven words.
The clue to first word is given to
help you get started.

The Clue: Inure, set

Q4 ENIGMA CODE

Q6 BRAIN TEASERS

1) I am the only thing that always

tells the truth. I show off

everything that I see. I come in

all shapes and sizes. So tell me

what I must be!

2) Can you show that four added

to six will make eleven?

3) What's so peculiar about

this sentence?

I do not know where family doctors

acquired illegibly perplexing

handwriting; nevertheless,

extraordinary pharmaceutical

intellectuality, counterbalancing

indecipherability, transcendentalizes

intercommunications'

incomprehensibleness.

4) Solve the letter equation

given below:

7 S of the W

5) What does the following

rebus represent?

(^) LAUG SIDE HTER
Q7 PICK AND CHOOSE
Solve the six clues by chosing the right combination of sets of letters
given below. Each set of letters can be used only once and only in
the order given. The number at the end of the clues specifies how many
sets of letters are used in the solution.

1. Triangle type (3)
   2. Capital of Austria (2)
   3. Successfully carried out (4)
   4. Four string guitar (2)
   5. Customary (4)
   6. Bandage (3)
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LIG

DIT

VIE

ACCO

MPL

ISO

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SOLUTIONS:

Ambulance, aubergine, beetle, emerald, Q1 Picture Search:

glider, guitar, laptop, mountain, Obama, panther, policeman,

shovel, telescope, towel, watermelon, yacht

Leery, visit, linden, modish Words: Q2 Scramble:

awake and your mind Success - keeping your Answer:

asleep. - Walter Scottdesire

Short-Change-Course-Work-Force-Back-Q3 Head & Tail:

Hand-Brake.

Harden, Arched, Danced, Endear, Header, Q4 Enigma Code:

Sacred, Spaced

Work Q5 Double - Barrelled:

Add IV turned upside down 2 A Mirror! Q6 Brain Teasers: 1

Each word in the sentence is "one 3 below VI and you get XI,

7 Seas of the World, 4 letter longer" than the word before it!,

Sidesplitting laughter 5

Accomplished, 3 Vienna, 2 Isosceles, Q7 Pick and choose: 1

Ligature 6 Traditional, 5 Ukulele, 4

b) Pressure, 3 a) Babylon, 2 c) 6, BBC Knowledge Quiz: 1

a) Bob Dylan 7 C) Sea of Azov, 6 c) Homer, 5 a) Myspace, 4

BBC KNOWLEDGE QUIZ

See how you fare in the general

knowledge quiz given below.

Ratings: 1-3 Poor, 4-5 Fair, 6-7 Excellent

1) Leicester City won the 2015-16

Premier League title. How many

teams have won it so far?

a) 5

b) 8

c) 6

2) Where did Alexander the Great die?

a) Babylon

b) Persia

c) India

3) What is the SI unit pascal used to

measure?

a) Force

b) Pressure

c) Momentum

4) Which social network was founded

in 2003 is now co-owned by Justin

Timberlake?

a) Myspace

b) Twitter

c) Friendster

5) Who wrote the Iliad?

a) Socrates

b) Plato

c) Homer

6) Which is the world’s shallowest sea?

a) Dead Sea

b) Black Sea

c) Sea of Azov

7) Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize for

Literature?

a) Bob Dylan

b) Anthony Doerr

c) J K Rowling