BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 489

Below you will find 15 well-known five-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Can you find the words?
--pay --lad --ior --eue --rva --day --voc --yss --gun --pty --til --cay --uke --uze --noe

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Puzzle 490

What is the smallest positive integer, which …

… when multiplied by 7 gives a number consisting of only 6's?

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Puzzle 491

My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed another fault.

I listed five countries, and how far away each was from England, and here are the results:
Australia     500 miles
Peru        8,000 miles
India       4,500 miles
Scotland    9,500 miles
France        ? miles

Can you work out the distance to France?

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Puzzle 492

Below is a grid which should contain animals. The missing letters for a particular column are listed at the top of that column. Can you 'drop' the missing letters in and complete the grid? Each animal begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

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