Brain Buster #1151
The following definition requires some thought. The explanation includes
all the facts. Ex: to study; twisted rope. Pore. (the word
"rope" twisted into "pore.")
Longing, arboreal style.
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Brain Buster #1152
Using the numbers 1 through 9, how many three-digit palindromic numbers can
you make? A palindrome reads the same forward and backward.
Examples: 181, 545, 858.
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Brain Buster #1153
One of us falls, and
never breaks. One of us breaks, but never
falls. What are we?
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Brain Buster #1154
For being good, four
children were each given two sweets. Jack had an
orange sweet. The child who had a red one also
had a blue one. No child had two sweets of the
same color. The child who had a green sweet also
had a red one. Jim didn't have a red sweet and
Joe had a green one. James didn't have an orange
one and Jack had no blue
sweets. Knowing that there were two sweets
of each color, can you tell the colors of the
sweets each child had?
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Brain Buster #1155
The name of a country
is hidden in each of the following sentences.
Find the country.
|1. If you are
adventurous, you want a fast boat, but if you
just want to be out on the water, a sloop or tug
alike will do.
2. He lost the rally
because he got lost on the way, not seeing a
semi hidden marker.
3. He opened the
window, and, with a loud buzz, air entered the
room along with a wasp!
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Brain Buster #1156
Find the number that best completes the following sequence:
100 100
102 98
104 96
106 94 ?
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Brain Buster #1157
To the best of our knowledge, only one word can be made from all of the
letters below. Can you figure it out?
E F G G G I I N O P T T
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Brain Buster #1158
Rachel received an invitation to a birthday party for Ryan. He was her
maternal grandmother's only child's only son. What relation was he to
Rachel?
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Brain Buster #1159
Here's a sentence palindrome:
Mother gave daughter a cut of meat.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
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Brain Buster #1160
Each of the two words below have an unusual feature in common. Can you
figure it out?
Abstemiously
Facetiously
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Brain Buster #1161
A lottery game exists where three balls are drawn one at a time from a bin to
determine the winner. The balls are numbered zero through nine and there
are 50 of each of the 10 numbers. Mark's ticket number is 327. What
are his chances of winning?
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Brain Buster #1162
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters,
can be used to complete the sentence below?
When it came to __________ friends at their wedding, the bride and groom did
a bit of __________ by pretending there were no seats for the bridal
party.
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Brain Buster #1163
Which word best fits with the following set?
Sandal Better
Billing Root
1. Seam 2. Scare 3.
Island 4. Murmur
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Brain Buster #1164
What is the missing number in the sequence below?
361,117 360,204
359,291 358,378
357,465 ?
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Brain Buster #1165
Each of the following definitions can be answered by two words that rhyme.
Easily accessible snack
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Angry supervisor
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The young fellow showed up a 8 pm, not 7.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Brain Buster #1166
In a football game a touch down (td) is worth 6 points. An extra point (e)
after a touchdown is worth 1 point. A field goal (fg) is worth 3
points. A safety (s) is worth 2 points. What are all the possible
ways to end up with a team scoring 12 points?
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Brain Buster #1167
Sam and Samantha, twins, discovered that if they added their ages together,
they would be the same age as their brother Simpson. Four years ago, the
sum of their ages was one-half of their brother's age, but four years from now,
their brother's age will be four-fifths of the sum of their ages. How old
are they now?
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Brain Buster #1168
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same eight letters,
can be used to complete the sentences below?
The lawyer was opposed to ________ Article 6. He said the original
wording was an ________ part of the entire contract.
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Brain Buster #1169
Find the six-digit number in which the first digit is two more than the
second; the second digit is two more than the third; the third is two less than
the second; the fourth is two less than the third; the fifth is one less than
the fourth; and the last two digits are the sum of the first four.
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Brain Buster #1170
One hose fills a swimming pool six times faster than a second hose.
Together they can fill the poll in five hours. How long would it take the
slower hose to fill the pool by itself?
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Brain Buster #1171
The following 22 letters form a five-word slogan written on a wall by a very
dyslexic communist. Can you solve the anagram?
D E E E F H I K L N O O O R R R S T T U W W
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Brain Buster #1172
In a pie-eating contest, Alice was neither first nor last, but she beat
Evan. Ben beat Alice. Carol beat Dan and Ben. Who was last?
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Brain Buster #1173
At a party, 1/5 of the people departed early. Later, 1/3 of the
remaining guests departed. Much later, 3/4 of those guests departed.
If two people were left, how many people were originally at the party?
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Brain Buster #1174
Pat went to visit her husband's only sister's mother's only husband's
mother. What relationship was she to Pat?
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Brain Buster #1175
If 1/3 of some number is 1/17 of 1/5, what is that number?
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