Sunday People

BRAIN TEASERS

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Can you bend your brain around this set of mathematic­al, lexical and logistical teasers?

1 NASA have recently named four asteroids after celebritie­s. Dillon is as large as Coleman and Baldwin combined at a millionth the size of the moon. Coleman is larger than Baldwin. Agassi is a million times smaller than Earth. Can your put these asteroids in size order?

2 Add three-letter connected items to make words: SE?IC, HON?Y, M?LED, AW?LY, BR?LE

3 Remove the letters of a noble gas, then those of a halogen, to leave those of an alkali metal: NNIOINMDDX­ISOOEUE

4 The difference between two positive numbers is three. The difference between their squares is 63. What are the two numbers?

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