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1. In preparation for a flood, emergency services sourced sandbags for the properties on Norreys Avenue, offering 15 sandbags per house and 18 for a block of flats. Thirty properties collected bags, which represented only four-fifths of the houses and two-thirds of the flat-blocks. If emergency services set aside 1,000 sandbags for Norreys Avenue, how many went unclaimed?

2. What connects deed, opinion and straw?

3. Which comedian and university graduate may make TIMBER BROOM?

4. Which is the odd one out: Isley, Sledge, Doobie, Everly?

5. Crack the code to find three German composers: GWFMRX, MFSIJQ, XYWFZXX.