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A) What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same eight letters can be used to complete the sentence below?
The hospital informed all mothers-to-be that it was their ________ duty to attend ________ classes.

B) In a go-cart race, Cindy was neither first nor last. Rose came in after Cindy. Jean beat Roger. Roger beat Beth. Cindy beat Beth but not Roger. Who was last?

C) A well-known statement has been put into very fancy language below. Can you put it back to everyday English?
It is impossible to determine the quality of a collection of folios bound together by examining only its exterior

D) Which of the words below is least like the others? (The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants, or syllables.)
TWIN – CHIME – SCORE – PLATE – CARE – HAT

E) Waldo and Basil are playing a game involving a single normal die. They take turns rolling it, adding the number appearing to their score, and the winner is the first person to total 100 points or more (totals greater than 100 is counted as 100). During the course of a game, which number is the least like to appear among either Waldo’s or Basil’s subtotals?

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