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The sixteen 'words' below needed to be sorted into four very different categories. But all the vowels have been changed. Can you work out what they should be, and which ones go together? For example FanTrovoe would become FunTrivia.

All these characters are animals (or birds) from the world of entertainment. Do you know which sort they are?

"Each peach pear plum / I spy Tom Thumb" is the start of a wonderful book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Tom Thumb is hiding in a peach tree in the orchard; there are also some pear trees and plum trees. Do you know how it carries on? Recommended for grades: 6,7,8,9,10

There are forty colours hidden in the following nonsense tale. They may be within a single word, or spread across two or more words. There is more than one colour in each question but you only need to give ONE of them for your answer.

There are many fictional ducks and geese in films, television and books, with rather more ducks than geese. So can you identify the right category for the following ducks and geese. Some are Disney ducks, some are other ducks, the rest are geese.

Ten cryptic clues leading to synonyms for 'love' from my thesaurus. For example:- The orient supports fifty-five holding nothing yields a score of zero in tennis (4) - fifty-five is LV, nothing is O, and the orient is E, so the answer is L-O-V-E

This is the opposite of a usual hidden-word quiz. You need to place these fifteen items, which might be found on a salad bar, into the story so that it makes a little sense. Look at the example, then use a bit of trial and error to see what might work.