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The infamous BrainBashers encyclopedia has been suffering from its usual problems again.

Below is a printout of reptiles and amphibians, but they have lost every other letter.

Can you replace the missing letters?
-r-g -o-t-i-e -n-k- -e-t -i-a-d -r-c-d-l- -a-a-a-d-r -u-t-e -k-n- a-l-g-t-r

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You can imagine an arrow in flight, toward a target. For the arrow to reach the target, the arrow must first travel half of the overall distance from the starting point to the target. Next, the arrow must travel half of the remaining distance.

For example, if the starting distance was 10m, the arrow first travels 5m, then 2.5m.

If you extend this concept further, you can imagine the resulting distances getting smaller and smaller. Will the arrow ever reach the target?

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Again, my BrainBashers thesaurus has let me down again. This time I was after boy's names and it failed to show the vowels.

What were the boy's names?
rn
jms
kvn
smn
kth
jrmh

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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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