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Hint
The country spans more than one word.

Answer
Peru.

The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleePER, Under which you can find the lesser-spotted great weevil.

Workings

Hint
Ellen liked shrimp, but didn't like eels.

Answer
No.

None of them liked food that started with the same letter as their name.

Workings

Hint
How many clock minutes pass in a real hour?

Answer
1:20pm.

Reasoning
The clock now shows 10:12am, so we know that 10 x 60 + 12 = 612 clock minutes have passed.

Since the clock is losing 6 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed, the clock will show 54 minutes.

So, 612 ÷ 54 ≈ 11.33 real hours have passed.

This equals 680 minutes, which is 11 hours and 20 minutes = 11:20am.

The clock stopped 2 hours ago, therefore the time must now be 1:20pm.

Workings

Hint
A little bit of algebra might help.

Answer
I have 14 apples and you have 28 apples.

Reasoning
We can work this out with a little algebra. I have A apples and you have B apples, then
[1]  5 x (A − 7) = B + 7

[2]        A + 7 = B − 7

From [1] we have:

    5A − 35 = B + 7
[3]      5A = B + 42

From [2] we have:

[4]  A + 14 = B

We can then use [4] in [3] to give:

  5A = (A + 14) + 42
  5A = A + 56
  4A = 56
   A = 14

Which gives B = 28 (by [4]).