1. What are the elusive characters? Missing two letters or numbers?

W  A  T  E  __  M  __  L  O  N ?
(In other words, what letters go in the blanks? The answer is NOT R and E.)
2. The following not only describes a famous monument, but is an anagram for its name. What is the monument?   
   Built to Stay Free
3. A person goes into the post office to mail a letter. She purchases two stamps and then asks the next person in line to put the stamps on the envelope. Why didn't she put the stamps on herself?
4. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
5. In each sentence below, an animal is concealed. For example, the sentence, "What shall I do, Gertrude?" has the word dog concealed. Find the hidden animal in each sentence.
• a) Horace tries in school to be a very good boy.
• b) People who drive too fast are likely to be arrested.
• c) For the Halloween party, John came looking like a radish.
6. What row of numbers comes next? (Hint: Say each line to yourself slowly.)

      1
      11
      21
      1211
      111221
      312211
      13112221

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