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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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