Brain Buster #1126
Can you think of a geometric series of whole numbers with three or more
numbers which add up to a square? Start with 1. Example: 1 + 3 + 9 +
27 + 81 = 121 = 11 squared.
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Brain Buster #1127
You throw away the outside and cook
the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw
away the inside. What did you eat?
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Brain Buster #1128
This is as light as a feather, yet
no man can hold it for long.
What is it?
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Brain Buster #1129
Name an English word of
more than 2 letters that both begins and ends with
the letters "he" in that order. There are at least
two
possible answers. "hehe" is not acceptable.
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Brain Buster #1130
George, Helen, and Steve
are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are
drinking soda. Is Elizabeth
drinking coffee or soda?
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Brain Buster #1131
A farmer goes to the
market with $100 cash. He has to buy exactly 100
animals. There are cows, geese and chicken for
sale. A cow costs $15, a goose is $1 and a chicken
costs $0.25. He has to buy at least one of each
animal and has to spend all his money. What does the
farmer buy?
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Brain Buster #1132
What is the four-digit number in
which the first digit is one third the second, the third
is the sum of the first and second, and the last is three
times the second?
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Brain Buster #1133
So far as I can determine,
only one other word can be made from the letters of
INSATIABLE. Can you find
it.
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Brain Buster #1134
If you were to put
a coin into an empty bottle and then insert a cork into the neck,
how could you remove the coin without taking the cork out of the
bottle or
breaking the bottle?
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Brain Buster #1135
Make your way from CAKE to EATS in only four steps, changing one letter at a
time to make a good English word at each step.
CAKE
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
EATS
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Brain Buster #1136
Find the six-digit number in which the first digit is one more than the
second; the second is one more than the third; the fourth is one less than the
third; and the fifth and sixth are the sum of the first and second and...no
digit appears more than once.
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Brain Buster #1137
Which word is the odd one out:
seventy
brawl
clover
proper
carrot
swing
change
travel
sacred
stone
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Brain Buster #1138
Here is a mathematical
addition problem. Given that U=6 can you replace each letter
with a digit to make the addition
correct?
T W O +
T W O
=
-----------
F O U R
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Brain Buster #1139
The names of a mammal is hidden in each of the following sentences.
All of the letters are in the correct
order.
1. The large crowd at the flea market
came looking for bargains.
2. I took off the
peel and ate the banana.
3. He has no
judgment, no sense
altogether.
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Brain Buster #1140
What one three-letter word can be added to the blanks below to make a new
word in each case?
_____ ROCK
_____ ROLL
_____ POST
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Brain Buster #1141
Jane is now two-thirds Josie's age. In four years, she will be three
fourths Josie's age. Four years ago, she was half Josie's age then.
How old are they now?
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Brain Buster #1142
Do you know your royal titles? Try this analogy of royal pairs:
Duke is to Duchess as Earl is to ________?
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Brain Buster #1143
We know that 5 squared = 25. Can you use the numbers 2 and 5 once and
only once and any math sign or symbol to arrive at 25 a different way?
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Brain Buster #1144
To what do the following words refer?
barb rachis
web down calamus
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Brain Buster #1145
Below is an analogy that is elementary for all, if you know what I mean.
Nickel is to 28 as Copper is to __?
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Brain Buster #1146
Make your way from LATE to on TIME in only three steps, changing one letter
at a time to make a good English word at each step.
LATE
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
TIME
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Brain Buster #1147
What number comes next in this number sequence:
3, 8, 15, 24, 35, ?
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Brain Buster #1148
The names of four people are hidden in the sentence below. Can you find
them? (the letters are in consecutive order.)
Yes, but I'm not willing to lend one cent to him.
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Brain Buster #1149
The beach resort held a contest to guess the number of beach balls in the net
bag. Alice guessed 20, Bill guessed 21, Charlie guessed 22, Dick guessed
17 and Ed guessed 16. One was off by 4, one was off by 3, one by 1, one by
2 and one was correct. How many beach balls were there?
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Brain Buster #1150
Here's an analogy that will test your knowledge of shapes.
Basketball is to sphere as football is to _______?
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