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1. If Elle gives Toby three of her pear drops, they will have the same number of sweets each. If Toby gives three pear drops to Elle, then he will have a fifth of the number that Elle has. How many pear drops have they got between them? 2. What connects grain, food and sale? 3. Which female jockey may FRY BONY SORT? 4. Which is the odd one out: goosander, greylag, teal, eider? 5. Crack the code to find three English composers: WTMY, OVGGDN, KPMXZGG.

1 Eighteen. 2 They all form new words with the prefix whole- (wholegrain, wholefood, wholesale). 3 Bryony Frost. 4 Greylag, a goose; the others are ducks. 5 Byrd, Tallis, Purcell (A becomes F, B becomes G, etc).