Brain Buster 601
Make a dent in your mental energy and complete the word below by filling in
the missing letters.
_ M _ _ E _ _ I _
_ N _ S S
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Brain Buster 602
A bolt of cloth is colored as follows: one-third and one-quarter of it are
black, the other 8 yards are gray. How long is the bolt?
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Brain Buster 603
What phrase is represented by the arrangement below?
MEN MEN MEN
BASE
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Brain Buster 604
Which set of numbers would most logically come next in the following
sequence?
10 1 9 2 8 3 7 4 6 5 5 6 4 7 3 8 2
(a)9 1 (b)9 3 (c)8 5 (d)6 7
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Brain Buster 605
In this question you have a fifty-fifty chance of guessing right since there
are only two possible answers. All of us know that the five American states
which are either touching or sitting in the Pacific Ocean are Alaska, Hawaii,
Washington, Oregon, and California. So we should find it simple to answer
whether Reno, Nevada, is east or west of Los Angeles, California.
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Brain Buster 606
If the only sister of your mother's only brother has an only child, what
would be your relationship to that child?
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Brain Buster 607
Can you figure out a palindrome that illustrates what loose coconuts can do
to people who sit under coconut trees?
_ _ _
S _
_ _ _
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Brain Buster 608
Janet likes pink but not purple, green but not lavender, and blue but not
topaz. By the same rules, will she like mauve or yellow?
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Brain Buster 609
What is the 4-digit number (no zeros) in which the third and fourth digits
are a baker's dozen; the second digit is the sum of the third and fourth, and
the first digit is double the last?
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Brain Buster 610
Here's another palindrome.......what's a rather slang term for a golf match?
T _
_ _
_ _ _
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Brain Buster 611
The problem is to find three different digits such that, in whatever order
they are used to make a three-digit number, that number will not be divisible
by:
3, 5, 7, 11, 13, or 17
Furthermore, since more than one solution is possible, we are looking for the
three digits whose product is the greatest.
To ensure that there is no ambiguity, suppose the three digits are a, b, and c.
Then, none of the numbers:
abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, and cba
will divide by 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, or 17
and also the product of a x b x c must be as large as possible.
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Brain Buster 612
The following 16 letters can be anagrammed into a five-word phrase meaning
"everyone is in it together."
A A A B E E H I L L N O M S T T
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Brain Buster 613
The name of an American city is hidden in the sentence below. Can you
find it? The letters are in consecutive order.
The coal miner works very hard, because each day, tons of coal must be moved.
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Brain Buster 614
The new teacher thought she'd get the children to drink the milk at recess
more cheerfully by offering cookies with it. A lot of the children had illnesses
and were out, causing various numbers of children to be present each day. One
day the teacher noted that if there were five fewer children the next day, they
would each get two cookies more if she brought the same number she had that day.
However, the absentee list was low the next day, and she had four more children
instead of five fewer. This meant that each received one cookie less than each
child had received the day before. How many cookies did the children get the
second day?
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Brain Buster 615
Farmer Higgs owns three pink pigs, four brown pigs, and one black pig. How
many of Higgs's pigs can say that it is the same color as another pig on Higgs's
farm?
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Brain Buster 616
Somehow or other I got talked into buying something on the installment plan.
I'm not sure I got a good deal. The payments to date, according to my checkbook,
have reached $96. The second year cost $2.00 more than the first year; the third
year cost $3.00 more than the second; and the fourth year cost me $4.00 more
than the third. What were my payments the first year?
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Brain Buster 617
If you had to swallow one pill every half hour, how much time would it take
for you to swallow three pills?
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Brain Buster 618
Alice, Ben, Charlie, David and Ed entered a contest to guess how many jelly
beans are in a jar. Alice guessed 30, Ben guessed 28, Charlie guessed 29,
David guessed 25 and Ed guessed 26. Two were off by 1, one was wrong by 4
and one by 3. One was correct. How many jelly beans are in the jar?
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Brain Buster 619
Find the word that fits the first definition, then add an "S" in
front of it to make a new word that matches the second definition.
Place an "S" in front of a black, road-filling substance, and make
a heavenly body.
Place an "S" in front of an expressive musical sound, and make a
rock.
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Brain Buster 620
What is the number which is 5 more than one-fifth of one-tenth of one-fourth
of 1000?
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Brain Buster 621
Mary, Jane, and Sue went bird watching. Each of them saw one bird that
none of the others did. Each pair saw one bird that the third did not.
One
bird was seen by all three. Of the birds Mary saw, two were yellow. Of the birds
Jane saw, three were yellow. Of the birds Sue saw, four were yellow.
How many
yellow birds were seen in all? How many non-yellow birds were seen in all?
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Brain Buster 622
Make a dent in your mental energy and complete the word below by filling in
the missing letters.
P _ _ S _ _ R _ T
_ _ N
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Brain Buster 623
What common opening line is represented by the arrangement below?
ONCE
6 PM
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Brain Buster 624
There are one thousand lockers and one thousand students in the school. The
principal asks the first student to go to every locker and open it. Then he has
the second student go to every second locker and close it. The third goes to
every third locker and, if it is closed, he opens it, and if it is open, he
closes it. The fourth student does this to every fourth locker, and so on. After
the process is completed with the thousandth student, how many lockers are open?
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Brain Buster 625
A frog is at the bottom of a 30-foot well. Each day he climbs up 3
feet. Each night he slides down 2 feet. On what day will he reach
the top of the well and escape?
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