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1. What is the next number in the series: 1,614; 534; 174 and 54 ? 2. What connects counter, imp and red? 3. Which New Year’s Honours recipient might have had SURLY DEBACLES? 4. Which is the odd one out: Balthazar, Methuselah, Gaspar, Melchior? 5. Using the chemical symbols, which sportsperson may use tungsten, rhenium, sulphur, thallium and erbium?