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Brain Buster #1076

Do you know what the collective name for each the following animals is?  (example:  A group of Fish is called a school).

1.  Cats
2.  Bears
3.  Whales
4.  Kittens
5.  Crows

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Brain Buster #1077

All the vowels (including "Y") have been removed from the following famous quote.  Can you read it?

SFRMGVMLBRTRGVMDTH

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Brain Buster #1078

What is the highest four-digit number, with no zeros, in which the first digit is one-quarter of the third digit, the second digit is three times the first digit, and the third and last digits are the same?

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Brain Buster #1079

I lost my wallet, and I don't remember how much money I had, but I remember thinking the first time I bought something that it cost 10 percent of what I had.  Then I noticed that the second purchase was also exactly 10 percent of what I had left.  my sales slips totaled $19.  how much was in the wallet when I lost it?

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Brain Buster #1080

Each of the following definitions can be answered by two words that rhyme.

A feline head covering
_ _ _     _ _ _

Geographical numbering of
_ _ _ _ _     _ _ _ _ _

A stolen pork product
_ _ _ _ _     _ _ _ _ _

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Brain Buster #1081

Take a word for a timekeeping device, change one letter and find a word that means "equal.?

Take a word for a Scottish design, change one letter and find a word that means "not elaborate."

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Brain Buster #1082

Two slow moving trains are traveling towards each other.  One train runs from point A to point B at 19 miles an hour.  The other train runs from point B to point A at 21 miles per hour.  One hour before the trains pass each other, how far apart are they?

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Brain Buster #1083

Which word best fits with the following set?

Apple     Melon     Plum     Pear     _____

1. Tomato     2.  Beans     3.  Spinach

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Brain Buster #1084

After your guests leave and you are cleaning up, you find an equal number of dimes, quarters and nickels under the sofa cushions totaling $8.  How many of each coin do you have?

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Brain Buster #1085

In the farmyard are a number of sheep and hens. There are twice as many hens as sheep, and if you add the total number of heads between them to the total number of legs, you get 187.  How many are there of each animal?

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Brain Buster #1086

All of the vowels (including "Y") have been removed from the following famous person's name and quotation.  Can you read the name and the quote?

MRNTNTTLTTHMTCK

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Brain Buster #1087

Two clocks register midnight at exactly the same time. One clock loses a minute an hour while the other clock gains a minute a hour. When will they again tell the same time?

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Brain Buster #1088

What one five-letter word can be added to the blanks below to make a new word in each case?

_____hair
_____back
_____play
_____man

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Brain Buster #1089

Punctuate the following sentence to make it correct.

Where John had had had Mary had had had had had had had been correct.

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Brain Buster #1090

Twice eight are ten of us
And ten are only three
Eleven are six of us ---
Whatever can we be?

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Brain Buster #1091

Messrs. Downs, Heath, Field, Forest, and Marsh-five elderly pigeon fanciers-were worried by the depredations of marauding cats owned by five not less elderly spinsters, and, hoping to get control of the cats, they married these ladies.  The scheme worked well for each of them so far as his own cat and pigeons were concerned; but it was not long before each cat had claimed a victim and each fancier had lost his favorite pigeon.  Mrs. Downs's cat killed the pigeon owned by the man who married the owner of the cat which killed Mr. Marsh's pigeon. Mr. Downs's pigeon was killed by Mrs. Heath's cat. Mr. Forest's pigeon was killed by the cat owned by the lady who married the man whose pigeon was killed by Mrs. Field's cat.  Who was the owner of the pigeon killed by Mrs. Forest's cat?

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Brain Buster #1092

Reduce the word ACCEPT to the single letter A in 8 steps. A step consists of either deleting a single letter to make a good English word, or substituting a single letter for another letter to create a new English word. For example: 

CARE
CAR (deletion)
CAT (substitution)
AT (deletion)
A (deletion)

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Brain Buster #1093

What is the number that is one more than one-fifth of one-third of one-half of one-tenth of 2,700?

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Brain Buster #1094

In order to encourage his son to study arithmetic, a father agrees to pay his boy 8 cents for every problem correctly solved and to fine him 5 cents for each incorrect solution. At the end of 26 problems, neither owes anything to the other.  How many problems did the boy solve correctly?

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Brain Buster #1095

I am a three digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What am I?

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Brain Buster #1096

Which of the six words completes the following sequence of words and why:
BASIC, ELF, HAITI, KILL, NO, ?

You can choose from:
QUACK, QUARREL, QUEER, QUIET, QUIZ, and QUEEN

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Brain Buster #1097

I cannot be felt, seen or touched;
Yet I can be found in everybody;
My existence is always in debate;
Yet I have my own style of music.
What Am I?

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Brain Buster #1098

You have 1,432 feet of fence that must be strung out in a straight line. A fence post must be placed for every 4 feet of fence, so how many fence posts will be needed?

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Brain Buster #1099

Can you solve the following sequence?

11, 12, 26, 81, 82, 166, 501, 502, ?

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Brain Buster #1100

A man sits on a buoy floating in a swimming pool. In his right hand is a glass containing an ice cube. If he throws the ice cube into the swimming pool, when will the water level rise?

·When the cube falls into the water?
·Or not until the cube is completely melted?

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