Brain Buster #176
The same 5 letters, rearranged to make two different words, can fill in the
blanks below. Complete the sentences.
"I had to fire that nincompoop," said the boss. "Our
company _ _ _ _ _ somebody a lot less
_ _ _ _ _ ."
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Brain Buster #177
I just bought a new car and ask 3
friends to guess the color.
Michael: "My guess is that it is not black".
Vivian: "It must be either blue or silver".
Nancy: "I'm placing my bet on silver".
Me: "The color of the car is one of the 3 colors that you have mentioned,
in addition, at least one of you is correct and at least one of you is
wrong".
What is the color of the car?
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Brain Buster #178
Start with the word GROUSE.
Delete one letter then rearrange the remaining letters to make a new word.
Now delete one letter from the new word and rearrange the remaining letters to
make a new word. Keep doing this until only one letter is left. Now
that you've done that, start over again and use different words. Now
repeat the exercise a third time, still using different words.
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Brain Buster #179
Sheilah is now two-thirds of Sally's age. In six years, Sheilah will be
four-fifths of Sally's age. In 15 years, Sheilah will be seven-eighths as
old as sister Sally. If they are both under the age of ten, how old are
they now?
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Brain Buster #180
If TEN = 20 - 5 - 14; and MEN = 13 - 5 - 14; what do WOMEN equal by the same
logic?
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Brain Buster #181
Without bouncing, how can you throw
a ball such that it comes back to you?
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Brain Buster #182
Bob, Steve, Tom and Vince are weight-lifters. Vince can out lift Tom,
but Steve can out lift Vince. Tom can out lift Bob, but Steve can out lift
Tom. Therefore:
1. Both Bob and Steve can out lift Vince.
2. Vince can out lift Bob but can't out lift Tom
3. Vince can out lift Bob by more than he can out lift Tom
4. None of the above
Which of the above is correct?
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Brain Buster #183
The following 12 letters can be anagrammed into a four-word phrase meaning
"in excellent condition."
F F D D A A I I T S E L
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Brain Buster #184
You are working on some estimates for your boss. You can come up with a
very good package for your new little widgets, but the packaging may be too
expensive. The cost of the widget and the packaging is $1.10, and the
widget is $1.00 more than the package. How much will you tell the boss
that the package for each widget will cost?
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Brain Buster #185
What do the dead eat, that the
living would die if they ate it?
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Brain Buster #186
One-third of an hour after a candle was lit, the other end was also
lit. It took a further one-third of an hour for the candle to burn
out. If the candle was lit at both ends at the start, and one end was
quenched when only the middle one-third of the candle remained, how long in all
would it take to burn the candle out?
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Brain Buster #187
The words DEFT, CANOPY, and STUN all have one characteristic in common, which
has nothing to do with the number of letters, vowels, consonants or syllables in
any of the words. What is it?
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Brain Buster #188
In a cellar there are 3 light switches (A, B and
C) in the "off" position. Each switch controls 1 of the 3 light bulbs
in the room above. How can you determine which switch is for which bulb with
only one inspection (you may go upstairs only once to inspect the bulbs)?
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Brain Buster #189
After standing in the rain for about 20 minutes at your bus stop, a group of
buses show up. The first one is too crowded, and you end up taking the
last one. There was one bus ahead of another bus, one bus behind another
bus, one bus behind two buses, and one bus with two ahead of it. What is
the smallest number of buses there could have been in the group?
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Brain Buster #190
Three cars had driven into a parking lot at the same time, and the three
drivers left them all for the attendant to park. Unfortunately, he can't
remember which driver drove which car. However, he is sure of the
following facts:
1. Colin drove the BMW if and only if Mr. Cooper drove the Avenger.
2. Alan drove the Cortina if and only if Mr. Cooper drove the BMW.
3. Colin is Mr. Brown if and only if Mr. Andrews drove the BMW.
4. Brian is Mr. Andrews if and only if Colin drove the BMW.
5. Mr. Cooper drove the Avenger if and only if Alan is Mr. Brown.
6. Colin is Mr. Brown if and only if Alan drove the Cortina.
Can you deduce the first and last names for each car's driver?
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Brain Buster #191
Mona and Allen went shopping for groceries. They spent half of what
they had plus $2.00 at the butcher shop. At the dairy, they spent half of
what was left, plus $5.00. At the bakery, they spent half of what was
left. The remaining $5.00 was spent on coffee and cake. How much did
they start with?
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Brain Buster #192
You have a huge box of beautiful decorated tiles, enough to provide a border
in two rooms. You really can't figure out how to arrange them,
however. If you set a border of two tiles all around, there's one left
over; if you set three tiles all around, or four, or five, or six, there's still
one tile left over. Finally; you try a block of seven tiles for each
corner, and you come out even. What is the smallest number of tiles you
could have to get this result?
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Brain Buster #193
Certain words have other complete words contained within them. For
example, BEVERAGE has EVER embedded in it. Given here are ten pairs of
definitions, the first definition of each pair referring to the included word,
and the second definition referring to the longer word. How many can you
decipher?
a. source & native inhabitants
b. corrosion & thwarted
c. reliable & not hastily
d. neat & marriage
e. health resort & media
f. uproar & country lovers
g. vindicate & cleanser
h. ring & revolt
i. stupid person & clergyman's robe
j. make certain & blame
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Brain Buster #194
The name of an American city is hidden in the sentence below. Can you
find it? (The letters are in consecutive order.)
The bear protected himself by hiding his den very cleverly.
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Brain Buster #195
Can you figure out the phrase that represents what happens when a lecturer
bores a group of Oxford University professors? (this is a palindrome.)
_ _ _
_ _ _ D
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Brain Buster #196
There are 6 oranges in a box.
Without cutting up any of the oranges, Pauline divided the 6 oranges among 6
children and 1 orange was left in the box. How did she do it?
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Brain Buster #197
AB + CD + (EF/GH) + (I/J) = 100
Each of the ten digits, from 0 to 9 has been used once and only once in the
construction of the above sum. Can you replace the letters with the
digits? There is more than one valid answer!!
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Brain Buster #198
Find the word that fits the first definition, then add a "Y" to the
end of it to make a new word that matches the second definition.
Add a "Y" to some cooking utensils, and find a flower.
Add a "Y" to a body appendage, and find a fighting
force.
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Brain Buster #199
What comes next in this sequence:
ENO OWT EHRET ROUF EIVF
XIS ?
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Brain Buster #200
Make a dent in your mental energy and complete the word below by filling in
the missing letters.
A _ B _ _ _ X _ R
_ _ S _ Y
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