Brain Buster #751
Find the number that best completes the following sequence:
3 9 4
16 5 25
6 ?
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Brain Buster #752
Which of the following is the odd man out? It has nothing to do with
letters or syllables.
WASHINGTON
LINCOLN
HAMILTON POLK
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Brain Buster #753
Each of the following definitions can be answered by two words that rhyme.
E.A.'s agricultural instruments
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Dorothy's noisy dogs
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Brain Buster #754
Mrs. Jones is 32 years older than her daughter. Six years ago, she was
exactly three times as old as her daughter. What are the correct ages of
Mrs. Jones and her daughter?
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Brain Buster #755
Two years ago, a man offered to sell his Chevy to a car dealership for $7000,
but they declined to buy it. A year later the seller offered the same car
for $6000, but again the car dealer decided not to purchase it. A few
months later the man offered the Chevy for $5142.85, but yet again the car
dealership refused to buy it. Yesterday, the car was offered for
$4,408.16. The car dealer still did not want to purchase the car. If
the owner offers the car for sale again, and he maintains a consistent
reduction, how much will the offer be?
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Brain Buster #756
What two letters should replace the question marks?
ACE
GIK
CFI
LOR
EIM
Q??
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Brain Buster #757
What number comes next in the following series?
21, 42, 63, 84, 06, ?
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Brain Buster #758
The following letters occur in these sequences in English words. What
are the words? Exampe: OOKKEE is Bookkeeper.
CKKN WKW
YZY
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Brain Buster #759
What one four-letter word can be added in the blanks below to make a new word
in each case?
_______REAL
_______SWIPE
_______LINE
_______CAR
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Brain Buster #760
Cathy bought two different types of candles, one that burned for 12 hours and
one that burned for 16 hours. Both candles were exactly the same
length. One night, Cathy lit both candles when her electricity went out
during a thunderstorm. Sometime later, when one candle was exactly 1/2 the
length of the other, the power came back on. Cathy needed to reset the
clocks that had stopped during the outage, but didn't know how long the
electricity had been out. Can you help Cathy figure out how long the
candles had been burning?
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Brain Buster #761
All the vowels (including "y") have been removed from the following
line in a nursery rhyme. Can you read it?
MSTRSSMRQTCNTRRHWDSRGRDNGRW.
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Brain Buster #762
What is the next number in the following sequence?
4
8
32
128
2,048 ?
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Brain Buster #763
Take an "s" from a word meaning "area" and find a word
meaning "rate of speed."
Take an "s" from a word meaning "to glue" and find a word
meaning "head."
Take an "s" from a word meaning "a sedimentary rock" and
find a word meaning "tardy."
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Brain Buster #764
Which of the following groups of letters is the odd man out? The
difference has nothing to do with vowels or consonants.
NAANAB NEIPPPLEA
AEGRP SFIH
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Brain Buster #765
The impetuous young man was telling his fiancee what time he would be
at her house so they could elope. He wanted to arrive at midnight, so he
had done a few practice runs. If he drove 40 miles per hour, he'd be an
hour early. If he drove at 30 miles per hour, he'd be on time, but at 20
miles per hour, he'd be two hours late. How far away was he?
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Brain Buster #766
One of the following is the odd word out. Which one and why?
apocryphal, spurious, indubitable, disingenuous, illegitimate
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Brain Buster #767
Can you tell what number comes next in this strange sequence?
3415826
345826
34586
4586 ?
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Brain Buster #768
Bryan is now twice as old as Jennifer. Ten years ago, he was four times
as old. Ten years from now, Jennifer will be five-eights Bryan's
age. How old are they now?
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Brain Buster #769
Replace the number signs with mathematical symbols to make this equation
work:
7 # 7 # 77 # 7 # 7 = 497
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Brain Buster #770
The following nine letters can be anagrammed to form a three-word, rather
bizarre way of wishing a person good luck.
A A B E E G K L R
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Brain Buster #771
Mary has seven passwords for seven computers at work. she has to match
each password with its respective computer. If Mary picks one of the
passwords and one of the computers to see if she has a match, what is the
probability she will be successful?
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Brain Buster #772
Here is an interesting math puzzle that is not as difficult as it
appears. Can you find a number that when divided by 2, has a remainder of
1; when divided by 3, has a remainder of 2; when divided by 4, has a remainder
of 3; and when divided by 5, has a remainder of 4?
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Brain Buster #773
All the vowels (including "y") have been removed from the following
quotation. Can you read it?
RSBNTHRNMWLDSMLLSSWT
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Brain Buster #774
Change the first letter of each pair of words to form a new pair of
words. Place the letter, the same for each pair, on the blank line in the
middle. When you have finished all the pairs, you will have a new word
reading down.
SLAM _____ SAME
DATER _____ FINGER
IRE _____ AVER
CHINE _____ BRING
PASTY _____ RESTLE
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Brain Buster #775
Find the six-digit number in which the first digit is three times the second;
the third is one more than the second; the fourth is one-fifth the last; and the
fifth is the sum of the first and fourth.
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