Brain Buster 426
What is the next number in this series:
1248 1632 6412 8256?
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Brain Buster 427
My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whether I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you or me.
But if my head should be cut off,
The matter's true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change.
What am I?
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Brain Buster 428
Tom is older than Sue, and Sue is younger than Mary, who is older than Tom.
Who is the oldest of the three?
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Brain Buster 429
In a foot race, Jack was neither first nor last. Sam beat Bill, Tom,
and Jack. Sam was neither first nor last. Joe beat Sam. Who
was first?
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Brain Buster 430
Fill in each of the definitions then use the first letter of each word to
form a seasonal word.
1. Pronounced the same as a homonym for "to kill." _ _
_ _ _ _
2. Not at all (at no time). _ _ _ _ _
3. To be obligated. _ _ _
4. Male name or determination. _ _ _ _
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Brain Buster 431
Replace each letter with a number (the same number for each letter), to find
a correct arithmetical solution.
H A N G
H A N G
H A N G
G A N G S
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Brain Buster 432
Sharon likes a palace but not a camp, ice but not cold and celery but not
carrots. Will she like, based on the same principle, cabbage or cereal?
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Brain Buster 433
Six seamstresses could sew six seams in twenty minutes. How many
seamstresses would be needed to sew thirty-six seams in two hours?
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Brain Buster 434
The following 12 letters can be anagrammed into a three-word toast with a
nautical flavor.
A C D E H H H N O T T W
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Brain Buster 435
There is a certain number whose third and fourth powers, taken together,
exhibit all the digits from 0 to 9, each once and once only. Can you work
out what the number is?
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Brain Buster 436
The names of three people are hidden in the sentence below. Can you
find them? (The letters are in consecutive order.)
He's ambitious and alert, so he'll gain the prize.
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Brain Buster 437
Curtain me thrice, I am a youth;
Behead me once, a snake;
Complete, I'm often used, in truth,
When certain steps you'd take.
Who or what am I?
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Brain Buster 438
Which set of letters would logically come next in the following sequence?
A Y D V G S J P M M P J ? ?
1. R K 2. S G 3. R S 4.
S I
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Brain Buster 439
What is the palindrome for the following sentence?
Edna and her friend perform a dance.
_ _ T _ _
_ _ D _
_ _ _ _
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Brain Buster 440
Jim is now half as old as his brother Joe. Ten years ago, he was
one-twelfth of his brother's age. In 11 more years, Jim will be as old as
his brother is now. If Jim is not yet a teenager, how old are they now?
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Brain Buster 441
Make a dent in your mental energy and complete the word below by filling in
the missing letters.
_ R _ N _ _ _ R M _
_ _ _ N
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Brain Buster 442
Start by adding the digits of the police emergency number for most places in
the U.S., then add to that the sum of the digits of the last four numbers of
"information" outside your local calling area. What is your
answer?
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Brain Buster 443
Can you recognize words without their A's? Shown below are a dozen
words from which exactly 39 A's have been extracted. See if you can
put back the missing A's. Each word has at least 3 A's.
1. bnn 2.
prllx 3. chrbnc
4. cnst 5.
dmnt 6. ngrm
7. slm 8. Mlyn
9. ctmrn 10.
bccrt 11. brcdbr
12. mcdm
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Brain Buster 444
You are female. What relationship to you is your father's only
son-in-law's mother-in-law's only daughter?
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Brain Buster 445
Two years ago, a man was offered a motorcycle for $1024, but he declined to
buy it. A year later, he was offered the same motorcycle for $640, but again
decided not to buy it. A little while after that, he was again offered the
motorcycle, this time at $400. Again, he refused to buy it. Last week, he turned
the motorcycle down even though the price had now fallen to $250. If the owner
offers it for sale yet again, and he makes a consistent reduction, how much will
it be for sale for the next time?
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Brain Buster 446
The names of three European cities are hidden in the sentence below.
Can you find them? (the letters are in consecutive order.)
She said, "Otto, slow down or this little boat will hit an iceberg,
ending our lives!"
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Brain Buster 447
What common chemical compound is represented by the following letters:
HIJKLMNO?
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Brain Buster 448
In the puzzle below, change the first letter of each word on either side of
the blank to make a new word. Use the same letter for both words on one
line. Then fill in the new letter on the line between the two words.
When you have finished, you will have a new word, reading down.
MART
_____ HARD
ROUND
_____ WERE
FASTER
_____ WITHER
PLASTIC
_____ FAST
BOLES
_____ AIMLESS
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Brain Buster 449
Your quiz for this day in March is most unusual. As is this
paragraph. What is so unusual about it?
If you look hard, you should find what it is without too much difficulty.
Try hard to spot it. How long did you think about it?
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Brain Buster 450
What number gives the same result when it is added to 1 1/2 and when it is
multiplied by 1 1/2?
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