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1. What is the next number in the series: 805, 119, 21, 7? 2. What connects the words band, chair and pit? 3. Which of the Historic Royal Palaces may send LONGEST PANCAKE IN? 4. Which is the odd one out: Scorpions, Rainbow, Whitesnake, Gillan? 5. Crack the code to find three French composers: JQHMB, ZIDMT, LCSIA.

15( ÷7, +4). 2 They all form new words with the prefix arm- (armband, armchair, armpit). 3 Kensington Palace. 4 Scorpions; the others are Deep Purple spinoff bands. 5 Bizet, Ravel, Dukas (A becomes S, B becomes T, etc).