Question 1 What word is suggested by the following series of numbers? 100015050
Question 2 Can you think of a nine-letter word which consists of a vowel followed by eight consonants?
Thanks to Mick Murrihy, of Streatham, for this week’s first question and Alan Wright, of Middlesex, for the second.
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