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1. A piece of cloth is cut into a number of smaller pieces. One of those pieces was cut into the same number again, and another piece cut into three-sevenths as many as the original number. If there are now 134 pieces, into how many pieces was the cloth first cut?

2. What connects copy, down and out?

3. Which London-inspired song may VALUE RETICENCE?

4. Which is the odd one out: sol, colon, cordoba, quetzal?

5. Using the chemical symbols, how may sulphur, uranium, boron, thallium and erbium be less obvious?