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Did You Know?
Brain Strain – it’s good for you!
1. Fill in the blanks to reveal five colours or shades. The initial
letters of each colour spell out a sixth colour. What is it?
_R_A_
_A_E_T_
_U_T
_I_V_R
_ N _ I _O
_R_N_E
_A_Y
2. 1/3 of 1/5 of 1/7 of a number is 10.
What is 1/3 of 1/50 of that number?
3. Put these words in order of length (alcan be paired with a
measure time)
BEST
BREAK
GLASS
LEAP
LUNAR
WALTZ
HOLY
Leaves change
colour in autumn
because chlorophyll
ophyll br
breaks
down, revealing hidden
pigments like carotenoids
and anthocyanins – the
science behind the
season’s fiery palette.
Dragonflies
migrate in
migra
autumn, with
some species
flying thousands of miles
to warmer places just like
birds?
Squirrels sometimes forget
where they’ve
buried their
autumn nuts,
accidentally
planting entire
forests?
ter
Spencer
Car
6. Sound
5. Concatenation,
catacomb, scatter,
decathlon, unscathed. The
three letter word is ‘CAT’.
4. In the speech below, all vowels have been removed, and
the remaining consonants have been grouped into batches
of seven.
What is being said? (Hint 4th July)
?XYZ??? Disperse
??XYZ???? A contest of 10 events
1. Cream, Rust, Indigo,
Magenta, Silver, Orange,
Navy CRIMSON
XYZ????? A subterranean burial place
2. 7 (The number is 1,050)
???XYZ??????? A series of things depending on each other
3. Second BEST, minute
WALTZ, hourGLASS, day
BREAK, HOLY week, LUNAR
month, LEAP year
5. What are the 5 words that follow and what three letter word
appears in all of them?
4. We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all
men are created equal
WHLDT HSTRT HSTBS LFVDN TTHTL LMNRC RTDQL
Answers
???XYZ??? Uninjured
BRAIN STRAIN
ANSWERS
6. What word is both audible energy waves and a valley filled
with water?
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