1.
What comes next?
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E: The number of white dots is increased by one each time, both vertically and horizontally, and all white dots are connected
2. Which four-letter word, when placed in the brackets, will complete a word on
the left and start another word on the right?
RAM (****) RIDGE
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PART: RAMPART and PARTRIDGE
3.
Which is the missing section?
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B: Lines across proceed +2, –3, +2. Lines down proceed –3, +2, –3
4. Ligno - is to wood as vitro- is to wool, glass, stone, water, paper?
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Glass
5. What number should replace the question mark?
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5: (8 + 7) × 5 = 75
6. Solve the anagrams to find a well-known saying. The number of letters in each word is shown.
(**** ** ********)(**** *******)
(asserting craft)(hint of antic)
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Fact is stranger than fiction
7.
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B: Black objects turn to white and vice versa
8. 0, 4, 2, 6, 3, 7, 3.5, ?
What number should replace the question mark?
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7.5: The sequence proceeds +4, ÷2, +4, etc
9. Identify two words (one from each set of brackets) that have a connection
(analogy) with the words in capitals and relate to them in the same way.
LONGITUDE (degree, tropics, meridian)
LATITUDE (parallel, line, equinox)
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Meridian, parallel
10.
Which is the missing section?
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B: In lines and columns, add the first three numbers to
arrive at the fourth number
11. Which word in brackets is closest in meaning to the word in capitals?
MONITOR (observe, order, meddle, intrude, conclude)
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Observe
12.
Looking at lines across and down, if the first two tiles are combined to produce
the third tile, with the exception that like symbols are cancelled out, which of the above tiles is incorrect, and with which of the tiles below should it be replaced?
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Tile 7 is incorrect, and should be replaced by tile B.
13. Which two words are most opposite in meaning?
Liberty, frivolity, chastity, sobriety, irrationality, polarity
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Frivolity, sobriety
14.
Insert four weights of 2 units, 3 units, 4 units and 6 units respectively so that the scales balance perfectly.
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6 × 1 = 2 × 3: 7 × 8 (6 + 2) = 56, 11 × 4 = 44, 4 × 3 = 12, 44 + 12 = 56
15.
When the drawing on the left is folded to form a cube, which is the only one of the following that can be produced?
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D
16. Which is the odd one out?
Femur, mandible, fibula, tibia, patella
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Mandible: it is the jaw bone, the rest are bones in the leg
17. My watch was correct at noon, after which it started to lose 17 minutes per hour until six hours ago it stopped completely. It now shows the time as 2.52 pm.
What time is it now?
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10 pm: 12 noon = 12 noon, 1 pm = 12.43, 2 pm = 1.26, 3 pm = 2.09, 4 pm = 2.52, +6 hours = 10 pm
18.
Insert all the letters of the phrase UNSPOILT LOCAL into the remaining blank
spaces once each only, to produce two words that form a phrase. Clue: things
are not always what they appear.
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OPTICAL ILLUSION
19.
Which is the missing tile?
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A: each line across and down contains five black dots and four white dots.
20.
What comes next?
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A: the figure is tumbling 45° at each stage and alternates white/black/striped.