Brain Buster #351

What letter should come next?

MY VS EH MS JR SN US NE P?
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Brain Buster #352

Next week I am going to have lunch with my friend, visit the new art gallery, go to the Social Security office, and have my teeth checked at the dentist's. My friend cannot meet me on Wednesday, the Social Security office is closed weekends; the art gallery is closed Tuesday, Thursday, and weekends; and the dentist has office hours only on Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday. What day can I do everything I have planned?
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Brain Buster #353

The following 10 letters can be anagrammed into one word.  What is it?

N E T R Q A U I S E 
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Brain Buster #354

The names of three people are hidden in the sentence below.  Can you find the names?  The letters are in consecutive order.

I'm angry and upset about our spat.
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Brain Buster #355

Here's a palindrome for you.

What would you call metal containers full of popcorn, peanuts or candy?

_  _  _  _  K         _  _  _  _
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Brain Buster #356

Find a word that fits the first definition, then add a "W" in front of it to make a new word that matches the second definition.

Place a "W" in front of an insect, and create a need or desire.

Place a "W" in front of a shelving system, and get a word meaning to stress or tear.
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Brain Buster #357

Katie the cook was in a predicament over a pie.  The recipe called for baking it for exactly nine continuous minutes, but all she had in the way of clocks were two egg-timers.  The first one measured a period of four minutes, and the second one seven minutes.  If there are no graduations on the egg-timers, and sand cannot be removed or transferred from them, what is the quickest way that Katie can measure nine minutes with the two timers?
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Brain Buster #358

Make a dent in your mental energy and complete the word below by filling in the missing letters.

L  _  B  _  R  _  _  _  I  _  _  I  _  M
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Brain Buster #359

The conversation in a bar returned frequently to age.  The four men concerned considered their ages only in whole numbers of years.  They found that:

a.  Mr. Ashton is 10 years older than Brian.
b.  Mr. Cox is 10 years older than Charlie.
c.  Mr. Baldwin is 24 years old
d.  David is the oldest of the four
e.  The average age of the four is two years lower than the average age of Allen, Brian and David.

The discussion took quite a while, during which:

f.  Mr. Cox drank more beer than Brian.
g.  Charlie drank more beer than Mr. Denby.
h.  Allen drank more beer than David.
i.  Mr. Denby drank more beer than Mr. Ashton.
j.  Mr. Baldwin drank more beer than Mr. Cox

Describe all four men, giving their first and last names, their ages, and the relative amounts of beer consumed during the discussion.
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Brain Buster #360

I have streets but no pavement.
I have cities but no buildings.
I have forests yet no trees.
I have rivers yet no water.
What am I?
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Brain Buster #361

A man decides to buy a nice horse. He pays $60 for it, and he is very content with this strong animal. After a year, the value of the horse has increased to $70 and he decides to sell the horse. But already a few days later he regrets his decision to sell the beautiful horse, and he buys it again. Unfortunately he has to pay $80 to get it back, so he loses $10. After another year of owning the horse, he finally decides to sell the horse for $90.  What is the overall profit the man makes?
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Brain Buster #362

Which three letter word can be attached to the beginning of the following words to give six other words ?

rock
post
spread
time
evil
clothes
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Brain Buster #363

Start with the number of the street in New York where you hear "those dancing feet," add the number of feet in a fathom and divide by the number of sides on one of a pair of dice.  What is the answer?
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Brain Buster #364

How can you drop a raw egg 6 feet without breaking it?
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Brain Buster #365

Take a word like POT, add the letter U, and you have POUT.  Described below are other pairs of works in which one becomes the other merely by the addition of a U. So, U can:

a.  make avenging deities out of small fish
b.  take a money holder and chase it
c.  pry with a lever into an elevation
d.  shade off into an academician
e.  make a bird out of a letter
f.  take a bony structure and make it lie flat
g.  turn a news medium into a poor thing
h.  go from satisfied to a fight
i.  perform as a pair
j.  change people into a list of food
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Brain Buster #366

Charlie likes the taste of turnips but not squash, he enjoys lettuce but not broccoli, and he loves the taste of a pear but not that of a plum.  Following the same logic, will he like parsnips of celery?
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Brain Buster #367

Rotating a real-life crop from RICE to CORN would be nearly impossible.  Here, it should only take five steps by changing one letter at a time to form the interim words.

R I C E
- - - -
- - - - 
- - - - 
- - - - 
CORN
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Brain Buster #368

Can you come up with a common English word of 6 letters containing: (a) four E's;  (b) four O's; (c) four S's.
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Brain Buster #369

If three typists can type 9 pages in one and a half hours, how many pages can nine typists type in 3 hours?
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Brain Buster #370

The following cryptogram has been done in a simple substitution cipher:  each number represents a letter, and the same number always represents the same letter.  What does it say?

14  26  23  26  14  22         24  6  9  18  22         24  26  15  15  22  23         8  26  18  23
8  19  22         4  26  8         20  22  7  7  18  13  20         20  15  12  4  18  13  20
9  22  11  12  9  7  8         12  13         19  22  9         4  12  9  16.
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Brain Buster #371

What are the two missing numbers in the series below?

_ _ 3 3 7 7 2 3 6 5
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Brain Buster #372

What everyday English word is most often pronounced incorrectly by Harvard graduates?
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Brain Buster #373

Homonyms are words that sound alike, though they are spelled differently. (Example: to, two, too) One pair of homonyms has meanings that are precisely opposite, and need not be stretched. What are the two spellings of this homonym?
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Brain Buster #374

If Mary has only one grandson, what relationship to her is her only son's daughter-in-law's husband?
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Brain Buster #375

How many common English words can you make from the letters below, using all the letters only once in each word?

A  A  C  G  H  I  L  L  P  R  Y
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