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1. Mabel and George are playing with their new electronic car toys. They race around a circular track, in opposite directions, at constant rates. They start at the same point and meet every nine seconds. If they were moving in the same direction, they would meet every 36 seconds. If the track is 1,800 centimetres in circumference, and Mabel’s car is the slower of the two, how fast is George’s car travelling? 2. What connects waxing gibbous, last quarter and waning crescent? 3. Which Labour-turned-Independent MP may SPIKE GAME? 4. Which is the odd one out: Yum-Yum, Makka Pakka, Nanki Poo, Pish-Tush? 5. Starting with A, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach RESULTANT.