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1. Dominique is choosing sweets from a pick and mix. She fills up a bag then puts nine sweets back. She swaps 25 per cent of the remaining sweets for five others. Finally she adds another seventh more, ending up with 40 sweets in a bag. How many did Dominique put in initially? 2. What connects Hydra, Rybka and Deep Thought? 3. Which famous person born in Jamaica may upset THE MALINGERERS? 4. Which is the odd one out: Henry II, Richard I, John, Richard II? 5. Crack the code to find three female animals: ITJ, OJSSD, ANCJS.

1 Forty-nine. 2 They are all chess programs. 3 Raheem Sterling. 4 Richard II; the others were the Angevin kings. 5 Doe, jenny, vixen (A becomes V, B becomes W, etc).