There are many different combinations of letters used in English to make the sound 'ooh'. Sometimes those combinations are used for a different sound. In which of these words can you hear 'ooh'? Avoid the red herrings. NB I speak British English! 
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These puddings have been traditional fare on a British dinner table for hundreds of years. The cover shows a simple dish of stewed fruit. How many of the rest can you recognise? 
But if you can find the fourteen herbs from the following mixture of herbs and spices, you might be able to grow your own. 
These cryptic clues all lead to synonyms of the word 'enlightenment' found in my thesaurus. How many can you work out? Will you have a light-bulb moment, or ten? For example, 'Bides odd manners about enlightenment (5-10)' leads to broad-mindedness. 
Which of these expressions is equal to 2b for all values of b? Which is only equal to 2b for two specific values of b. Which is equal to 2b only when b = 0? It may help to solve the equation made by equating the given expression with 2b. 
Listed below are twenty things you could wear. You need to find the twelve that you might wear on your head. Ignore the eight that would go on your feet. 
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As the Chalet School was forced to leave Austria after the Anschluss the girls vowed to try and keep in touch with each other, and to work for peace as far as possible. Can you put the missing words into the correct places? 
Answer the first fourteen questions. Then put them all together to give you a clue towards the answer to the fifteenth question, which relates to entertainment. 
The swinging sixties - the era of scientific and sporting achievements, political problems, free love, psychedelic art, hippies, increasingly short skirts, and pop music. How much do you remember, or have you heard about what happened then? 
All the following words can go before table to make a longer word or phrase. The result might be a piece of furniture, it might be an array of data, or it might just be part of a longer word. Which of these make a table? See the examples below. 
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A slippery sultan could be a crafty captain, or a deceitful director, or a lubricated leader or a ... You get the idea. The clues should lead you to ten more cunning commanders or baseless bosses. 
One elephant is good, but five elephants are better. Most plural words are made by adding the letter 's' to the end of the singular word. Elephants are like that, but not all animals are. Can you spell the words for more than one of these animals? 
This quiz has a question loosely based on each of the twenty categories in FunTrivia, all of which have something to do with rejects or rejection. 
If it's not going right it must be going either left or wrong. Can you find the correct prefix for these words to make a common word or phrase? |
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Children learn to count from a young age, but numbers can get more complicated. Can you match the numbers with the definition given. Some numbers may fit more than one category, but there is only one way to match them all correctly. 
Fifteen cryptic clues to words which could mean nothing. For example - Naughtiness covers nothing (5) gives the answer aught (inside naughtiness). All the other answers are provided, too - you just need to match each one to the correct clue. Good luck! |
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