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1. While getting ready for a fancy-dress party, Lola took three minutes more to do her costume than Marco and Elias took added together. If Marco took three-quarters as long as Lola, who took seven times as long as Elias to get into her costume, how long did the three children take added together?

2. What connects dress straps, Sergio Leone and the Gravelly Hill Interchange?

3. Who might have SAILED off?

4. Which is the odd one out: Pennsylvania, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut?

5. Using the chemical symbols, which vegetable can be made from calcium, boron, barium and germanium?