1.   ROPE AND TIES: What is that eleven letter word that can  be found by rearranging the letters in this anagram?

2.  Among the passenger of a tourist bus the number of Japanese males is the same as German females but two  more than German males, one more than French women and   four less than American females. 

The number of Japanese female passengers is three less  than American males and one more than German males and same as French Females. There are only six French males whose number is half of the American females. 

What is the total number of passengers in the bus?

3. The word 'Abstemious' has something special about the   arrangement of its letters? What is that? What other letter of that kind you can think of? 

 
Compiled by Shah N. Khan
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