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1. One-fifth of a certain number is 12 more than one-eighth of nine less than that number. What was that number? 2. What connects monarchy, pitch and zero? 3. Which celebrity hotel-owner MAY RUN YARD? 4. Which is the odd one out: groundnut, goober, filbert, peanut? 5. Using the chemical symbols, what may be the location of nobelium, tungsten, helium and rhenium?