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1. What is the next number in the series: 17, 32, 62, 122? 2. What connects nine-banded, greater fairy and screaming hairy? 3. Which 2018 Grammy recipient may have spilt BARON’S RUM? 4. Which is the odd one out: Runaround Sue, Polythene Pam, Julia, Michelle? 5. Crack the code to find three flatfish: GCZS, HIFPCH, VOZWPIH.

1 242 (x2, -2). 2 They are all types of armadillo. 3 Bruno Mars. 4 Runaround Sue; the others are Beatles songs. 5 Sole, turbot, halibut (A becomes M, B becomes N, etc).