Brain Buster #376
How
many writing pads should there be ?
78 - Pencils
152 - Paint Brushes
51 - Files
142 - Felt Tip Pens
? - Writing Pads
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Brain Buster 377
A Chicago lawyer and his wife went to Switzerland for a vacation. While they
were skiing in the Alps, the wife skidded over a precipice and was killed. Back
in Chicago an airline clerk read about the accident and immediately phoned the
police. The lawyer was arrested and tried for murder.
The clerk did not know the lawyer or his wife. Nothing he'd heard or seen made
him suspect foul play until he read about the accident in the paper. Why did he
call the police?
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Brain Buster 378
I am a fire. Change one letter and I am a knife. Change
another letter and I am a clearing. Change another letter and I am a rank.
Change one final letter and I am a fruit. What was I and what did I become ?
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Brain Buster 379
What regularly changes shape, yet remains a sphere, is always there, but often
not seen?
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Brain Buster 380
One orange, one apple and two pears cost 51 cents. Two
pears and two oranges cost 42 cents and one apple, one pear and two oranges cost
44 cents. How much will two apples and two oranges cost ?
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Brain Buster 381
Often talked of, never seen,
Ever coming, never been,
Daily looked for, never here,
Still approaching, coming near.
Thousands for it's visit wait
But alas for their fate,
Although they expect me to appear,
They will never find me here.
What is the poem referring to?
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Brain Buster 382
The alphabet is written here but some letters are missing. Use the missing letters to form the name of an author.
Who is it?
B F G H J K M N P Q T U V X Y Z
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Brain Buster 383
When liquid splashes me, none seeps through. When I am moved a lot, liquid I
spew. When I am hit, color I change. And color, I come in quite a range. What I
cover is very complex, and I am very easy to flex. What am I?
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Brain Buster 384
You see 2 brothers standing at a
fork of a road. There are 2 paths which you can go; one leads to treasures and
wealth and one leads to grave misfortune. You can only choose one path to
proceed and there is no turning back. You are only allowed to ask one of them
one question, but one of them always lies and one of them always tells the truth
(you don't know which is which). What question would you ask?
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Brain Buster 385
The names of three scientists are written here,
unfortunately the vowels have been left out. Replace the vowels to discover
the three names. Who are the scientists?
SCNWTN
LBRTNSTN
LSPSTR
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Brain Buster 386
A certain family consists of 1
grandfather, 1 grandmother, 2 fathers, 2 mothers, 4 children, 3 grandchildren, 1
brother, 2 sisters, 2 sons, 2 daughters, 1 father-in-law, 1 mother-in-law, and 1
daughter-in-law. How many people are there
altogether?
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Brain Buster 387
What can be driven, but has no wheels.
And can be sliced, and still remain whole?
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Brain Buster 388
A ship is battling against the tide to safety. It uses
9.5 gallons of fuel every hour and sails at 23 mph. It is 34 miles from safety
but the flow against it is 12 mph. It has 30 gallons of fuel left. Will it
reach safety?
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Brain Buster 389
I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am NOT a gossip but I do get
involved with everyone's dirty business. Can you name me?
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Brain Buster 390
A boy leaves home in the morning to go to school. At
the moment he leaves the house he looks at the clock in the mirror. The clock
has no number indication and for this reason the boy makes a mistake in
interpreting the time (mirror-image). Just assuming the clock must be out of
order, the boy cycles to school, where he arrives after twenty minutes. At that
moment the clock at school shows a time that is two and a half hours later than
the time that the boy saw on the clock at home. At what time did he reach school?
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Brain Buster 391
What is the next number in this series?
21, 20, 18, 15, 11, ________?
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Brain Buster 392
What is represented by the wacky word?
lookbebebebeuleap
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Brain Buster 393
Can you complete this grid of letters. Each line is a valid 5 letter word
with its first and last letter missing. The missing letters form a word when
read downwards and the same word appears both at the start and at the end. What
is the missing word?
?AGL?
?ABE?
?LUR?
?UTD?
?IDO?
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Brain Buster 394
There are two bars of iron. One bar is magnetized along its length, while the
other is not magnetized. Using just the two bars, without any other items, how
can you tell which bar is magnetized and which is not?
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Brain Buster 395
If a crab and a half weigh a pound and a half, but the half crab weighs half
as much again as the whole crab, what do half the whole crab and the whole of
the half crab weigh?
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Brain Buster 396
A man was telling me on a particular occasion, "The day before yesterday
I was 35 years old and next year I will turn 38." How can this be?
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Brain Buster 397
Using the numbers 1, 9, 9 and 9, in that order,
make the number 89. You may use brackets and any standard math operation such as
the square root, +, -, * and /. For example, 26 = -1 + 9 + 9 + 9.
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Brain Buster 398
When you say my name, I no longer exist. What am I?
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Brain Buster 399
What is the number which is 4 times the number that is one-eighth of
one-tenth of one-half of 640
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Brain Buster 400
What is represented by this wacky word?
VESTIPRIVATEGATOR
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