1. Voltaire
2. El Greco
3. Mark Twain
4. Hungary
5. Finland
6. Phileas Fogg
7. Frau Holle or Goldmarie und Pechmarie
8. Trees. There are Sequoias, which should be several thousand years old.
9. Alaska is the easternmost and westernmost, because the date boundary passes through in the middle.
10. Your wife.
11. A Werewolf
12. Aphrodite
13. Franzisco Pizarro
14. In London
15. Pain. It is measured in Dol.
16. Of the number 13.
17. Styx
18. Portugal, although to Lusitania also some areas of Spain belonged.
19. He constructed the Suez- and the Panamacanal.
20. Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, Herm

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1. b)Floor, above and down
2. c)Ball, two dimensions-->three dimensions
3. d)Arsenals = Storehouse for weapons
4. b)Work, payment for achievements
5. d)Regen, read backwards
6. c)Food
7. a)a river, first word corresponds to origin
8. c)Japan, ¥ is the sign for Yen
9. d)Golf
10. c)Topographic maps
11. a)Cereals
12. c)Valley, natural erosion
13. a)Earth
14. b)Falte, Anagram
15. a)Merkur, messengers of the Gods in the antiquity
16. d)Airplanes
17. b)Brasil, same language: portuguese
18. b)32°, °F=1,8 × °C + 32°
19. d)Siam, read backwards
20. d)Curie, Units with names of scientists
21. e)Foliage
22. aGermany, revolution years
23. a)C, first two consonants
24. c)Collie, correlating race
25. b)Mitchell, Magaret
26. e)Milky Way, the larger shape each
27. a)Saffron, same plant family
28. d)Roosevelt, the predecessor each

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1. They are 2519 persons.
2. E = 3, G = 0, H = 5, I = 7, N = 4, T = 1, W = 2, Y = 6
3. A = 0, C = 1, E = 5, I = 2, N = 4, O = 9, R = 6, T = 4, U = 7, V = 8
4. Mr. Dupont had: 99,95 Francs.
   Remained for him: 19,99 Francs.
   So bill for the meal was 79,96.
5. The oldest had 5, the second 6, the third 5 and the forth 10 drops.
6. Yes, the smallest is: 38² = 1444.
7. Andreas is 33 and Katrin is 22 years old.
8. I have 6 Sisters and 3 Brothers. Thus we are 10 brothers and sisters altogether.
9. Micheal was marked with 14 and Klaus with 6.
10. I had 52,50 Marks with me.
11. The primary number is 749. Thus the number increases by 198.
12. 900 pupils go on this school.
13. There are 3 boys and 4 girls, 7 children altogether.
14. The family Mueller has 7 and family Meier of 5 children.
15. The girl is 15 years old.
16. Leonore has 4 cats.
17. 5283 × 49 = 258867
18. The number s are 6, 7, 8, 9.
19. There were 9 children, and everyone got 9 marbles.
20. 7 Frenchmen and 5 Englishmen participate.
21. N ends with a 9.
22. "100!" ends with 24 nulls.
23. Yes, N is an integer.

1. The sea is 68,2 meters deep here.
2. The truncated cone has a volume of 12,697 cm³.
3. The oil in the glass has the largest mass.
4. Altogether 0.632 m² are cleaned.
5. You get: E = 1997.
6. A hexagon has 9, a heptagon 14 and octagon 20 diagonals.
7. The horizon is 40.29 km far away.
8. The dog has 1.228 m² for its free disposal.
9. The distance amounts in both cases to 15,92 cm.
10. 62,5% of the sea visible by the window is covered by the cloud.
11. The two sides at the wall are 1,464 m and the open side 2,071 m long.

1. The hare gets hurt with a probability of 0,748 (74,8%).
2. In only 3 of 8 cases there were just as many boys are as girls.
3. The probability to have an accident amounts to 0,0952 (9,52%).
4. At least 10% have only one ear, one eye, one arm and one leg left.
5. Altogether 69,76% the racing cars have an accident.
6. There are 22 persons in the group.
7. The proportion of the oil field under the sea amounts to 0,4 (40%).
8. The life expectancy of the longest living person is 53 years and 9 months.
9. The seeked probability is 0,718 (71,8%).
10. The probability to expect diovular twins (boy + girl) amounts to one of 750 (0,13%).
11. The percentage of days without false alarm and without not announced sharks is 96,4%.
12. The chance that both actually meet is 0,4375 (43,75%).
13. The seeked probability is 0,8889 (88,89%).
14. 1% of the holiday-makers are reading all three newspapers.
15. To 52.01% there is no married couple among them.
16. The probability that Anne sits left is 0,4286 (42,86%).
17. The chance for Maserati not to win is 2 to 1.

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