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1. It’s 4pm at a sunny French resort, and the holidaying Jameson family have just come back indoors after sunbathing. Lewis was out for 27 minutes fewer than Shae, who was out for five minutes more than Chris, who sunbathed for half as long as Mel. If the average time each spent in the sun was 52 minutes, at what time did Mel go out?

2. What connects industrial, public and race?

3. Which Cleopatra actress might display A BLITHE ZEALOTRY?

4. Which is the odd one out: Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke?

5. Using the chemical symbols, how may one make a broad statement about germanium, neon, radium, lithium and selenium?

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