Brain Buster 476
What is the 4 digit number (no zeros) in which the last digit is the number
of sides on a hexagon, the first digit is one-half of the last, the second digit
is the first digit subtracted from the last, and the third digit is the sum of
the first and second digits?
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Brain Buster 477
With the numbers 123456789, make them add up to 100.
They must stay in the same order.
You can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Remember, they have to stay in the same order !!!
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Brain Buster 478
What 10 letter word can be spelled using only the letters on the top row of a
standard keyboard?
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Brain Buster 479
The following 14 letters can be anagrammed into an English translation of a
three-word sign you might see on a Spanish or Italian shopkeeper's door.
C C D E F H L L N O O R S U
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Brain Buster 480
How many times can you subtract 6 from 30?
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Brain Buster 481
Two avid runners completed over a 12 mile course, 6 miles uphill and 6 miles
downhill. "Fast & Steady" ran 6 MPH both up and down,
"Ritz & Startz" ran 3 MPH uphill and 12 MPH downhill. Who
won the race?
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Brain Buster 482
If you use the same three letters in the same order before and after the given
letters, you will get a word! What is the word?
_ _ _ ERGRO _ _ _
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Brain Buster 483
The names of three people are hidden in the sentence below. Can you
find them? ( the letters are in consecutive order .)
He is willing to assume a belligerent pose.
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Brain Buster 484
Reduce the following high brow language to a common sentence!
It is incumbent upon all scriveners and all who are engaged in forensics of any
nature whatever to effectually make their communications compendious, pithy,
succinct, and as totally lacking in prolixity, circumlocution, and
sesquipedalion words as they are noted for their lucidity, perspicuity,
trenchancy, and terse sentences.
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Brain Buster 485
There are 2 numbers whose sum is 100. If 5 is subtracted from each
number, the larger number will be twice the smaller. What are the numbers.
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Brain Buster 486
Jim didn't fail to go to the party to which he didn't want to but decided he
would go to it because if people knew he didn't want to go to it he would want
to go for fear they might think he didn't want to go to it because he didn't
like the hosts. Did Jim go to the party?
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Brain Buster 487
Here's a palindrome for you:
A French painter and sculptor of ballet is described as wise.
_ _ G
_ _ E _
_ _
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Brain Buster 488
When Maria went to get a passport, she had to give her real date of birth,
but under all other circumstances she refused. When somebody asked how old she
was, she said she was twenty-one. mentally omitting all Sundays. Sundays she
didn't work, so naturally she didn't get any older. How old was Maria really?
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Brain Buster 489
You go on a picnic with your friends. Each one of them wants a different
amount of oil and vinegar in his salad. However, you've already mixed the oil
and vinegar in one bottle. How can you please everyone at the picnic?
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Brain Buster 490
Ann is now twice Jane's age. In six years, Jane will be three-fourths
of Ann's age then. In 12 years, they will both be teenagers, and Jane will
be five-sixths of Ann's age then. How old are they now?
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Brain Buster 491
A man ordered a length of rope by telephone from his nearest hardware shop.
But when he went to collect the rope, he found that the assistant had miswritten
the order by interchanging feet and inches, As a result of this, the rope was
only 30 percent of the length that the man wanted. So, what length did he want
and what length did he get?
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Brain Buster 492
What is the next word in the following series: aid, nature, world, estate,
column, sense ...?
Is it (a) water, (b) music, (c) welcome, or (d) heaven?
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Brain Buster 493
Add a line and the figure 2 to 191 and make the answer less than 20.
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Brain Buster 494
Find the word that fits the definition, then add a "W" in front of
it to make a new word that matches the second definition.
Place a "W" before the result of an attack of poison ivy, and get a
nasty woman (slang).
Place a "W" before learned by memory, and get the past tense of
write.
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Brain Buster 495
Make a dent in your mental energy and complete the word below by filling in
the missing letters.
I _ _ _ _ S S I _
_ _ _ _ E
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Brain Buster 496
What common phrase does the following arrangement represent?
GL A SS
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Brain Buster 497
Of three sisters named April, May, and June, none is yet twenty-one. April is
now as old as June was fourteen years ago and two-thirds of May's age. May, on
the other hand, will be June's age when May is twice as old as she is now plus
two years. Three years ago, May was as old as April is now. How old are April,
May, and June?
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Brain Buster 498
A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows,
how many cows will he have?
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Brain Buster 499
In order to encourage his son to study arithmetic, a father agrees to pay his
boy 8 cents for every problem correctly solved and to fine him 5 cents for each
incorrect solution. At the end of 26 problems, neither owes anything to the
other.
How many problems did the boy solve correctly?
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Brain Buster 500
Make a dent in your mental energy and complete the word below by filling in
the missing letters.
_ Y _ _ R _ R _ T
_ C _ L
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