Brain Buster #1
Bill went out to buy some golf equipment. He spent half of what he had
plus $5. at the first store. He spent half of what was left plus $4. at
the second store. At the third store he spent half of the remainder plus
$3. He then had $5. left to buy golf balls. How much money did he
start with?
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Brain Buster #2
Reduce the high brow language below to a common saying.
One who retires to his nightly repose at an hour deemed not too tardy and
gets up in the same manner, will tend to keep himself in good physical
condition, good monetary condition and sapient.
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Brain Buster #3
What 2 words, formed from different arrangements of the same 9 letters, will
complete the sentence below?
The homesick recruit told his civilian buddy, "I guess I should have
been __________to my father when he told me to go to school instead of
___________."
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Brain Buster #4
Lee, Joe, Sue, Janet and Charles took a math exam. Charles was not
last, Janet was not first or last. Charles scored higher than Joe, Janet
scored higher than Sue, Lee scored lower than Joe but higher than Janet.
Who had the highest score?
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Brain Buster #5
The names of 3 British cities are interlettered below. Can you find
them? The letters of the cities have not been scrambled.
LCPEALIMYCBMEROSIUTDTEGHRE
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Brain Buster #6
What is the number which is 4 more than the number that is double one-fifth
of one-tenth of 900?
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Brain Buster #7
The letters below represent a common phrase. Can you figure it out?
FJRUISETNDS
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Brain Buster #8
Fill in the blank below with a word that when it is read first forward and
then backward means the same as those on either side. ( Ex: cooking tools
_ _ _ _ cease), the answer is POTS - STOP.
part of a piece of furniture _ _ _ _ _ _ prize.
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Brain Buster #9
The following 13 letters can be anagrammed into a rude five-word phrase
meaning "do what you said or keep quiet."
UUUUTTPPPSRHO
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Brain Buster #10
Start by adding the year Columbus discovered America to the year William the
Conqueror conquered England, then add the first year of the 21st century.
What's the answer?
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Brain Buster #11
A certain month will begin on a Friday and will end on a
Friday also.
What month is it?
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Brain Buster #12
The local grocer is a would-be mathematician. He likes to arrange his
apples in nice rows. However, when he lays his apples in rows of 3 he has one
left over. When he lays them in rows of 5 he also has one left over. Remarkably
he also has one left over when he arranges them in rows of 7 and 9. 11 seems to
be the magic number, for, in rows of 11 there are no apples left over. How many
apples does the grocer have?
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Brain Buster #13
John is such a great painter, that he was asked to paint
the room numbers on all of the doors of the fourth floor of the local hotel. He
painted all of the numbers from 400 to 499. How many times did he paint the
number 4?
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Brain Buster #14
My first is in bridge but not in ridge.
My second is in awake and in mistake.
My third is in danger but not in ranger.
My fourth is in flange and in orange.
My fifth is spline and in wine.
My last is river and in diver.
My whole likes the darkness.
What am I?
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Brain Buster #15
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
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Brain Buster #16
What word is represented by the letters below?
M.D.
M.D.
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Brain Buster #17
That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant. But the attorney
testified he didn't have a brother. Who is lying?
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Brain Buster #18
If you reverse the digits of my age, you have the age of my daughter. A year
ago, I was twice her age. How old are we both now?
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Brain Buster #19
Kev, Berni and James like coffee, but John, Mathew and Prichard don't. Does
Simon like coffee?
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Brain Buster #20
Traffic was really bad going to work this morning. I only managed to average 30 mph.
At what speed must I travel home tonight to average 60 mph for the entire round trip?
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Brain Buster #21
What is represented by this Wacky Word? (check our website
if you're not familiar with Wacky Words)
horobod
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Brain Buster #22
An Arab sheik tells his two sons to race their camels to a distant city to
see who will inherit his fortune. The one whose camel is slower will win. The
brothers, can't figure out how they can have a fair race under that
condition. After wandering aimlessly for days, they ask a wise man for advice.
After hearing his advice they jump onto the camels and race as fast as they
can to the distan t city. What did the wise man say to them?
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Brain Buster #23
What is the number that is 2 more than one-tenth of one-fifth of one-tenth of 1,000?
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Brain Buster #24
You can buy 3 bags of jellybeans and 2 bags of chocolate chips for 24¢,
which was under their limit of a quarter. You can also get 4 bags of
chocolates and 2 bags of jellybeans for the same 24¢. How much did each
bag of chocolates cost?
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Brain Buster #25
Fill
in the blanks below with a word that has the same meanings as the words on
either side.
(plunder) ____________ (bag)
(shoreline) ____________ (slide)
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