Daily Brain Teasers for Thursday, 25 August 2016
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Find a famous person
Find the first and the last name of a famous person. Text may go in all 8 directions. Length of words in solution: 5,6.Chess Knight Move
Find the country and its capital city, using the move of a chess knight. First letter is B. Length of words in solution: 10,5.PALINDROME
Make the palindrome of the following letters: A, A, A, A, A, A, D, D, D, D, E, E, E, E, E, E, J, N, N, N, N, N, N, O, O, O, O, R, R, R, R, R, R, S, S, T, T, W, W, W, W, W, W, W, WPet Store
A lady was walking down the street to work and she saw a parrot on a perch in front of a pet store. The parrot said to her, “Hey lady, you are really ugly.” Well, the lady is furious! She stormed past the store to her work.
On the way home she saw the same parrot and it said to her, “Hey lady, you are really ugly.” She was incredibly ticked now. The next day the same parrot again said to her, “Hey lady, you are really ugly.”
The lady was so ticked that she went into the store and said that she would sue the store and kill the bird. The store manager replied profusely and promised he would make sure the parrot didn’t say it again.
When the lady walked past the store that day after work the parrot called to her, “Hey lady.”
She paused and said, “Yes?”
The bird said, “You know.”
Calculate 100/17
IF 23=33, 54=31, 77=42 THEN 100/17=? Express result to the accuracy of 3 decimal.Joshua Lionel CowenBorn 25 Aug 1880; died 8 Sep 1965 at age 85.American inventor of electric model trains who founded the Lionel Corporation (1901), which became the largest U.S. toy train manufacturer. At age 18, he had invented a fuse to ignite the magnesium powder for flash photography, which the Navy Department bought from him to be a fuse to detonate submarine mines. He designed an early battery tube light, but without practical application. (His partner, Conrad Hubert, to whom he gave the rights improved it and founded the Eveready Flashlight Company.) At age 22, he created a battery-powered train engine intended only as an eye-catcher for other goods in a store window. To his surprise, many customers wanted to purchase the toy train. Thus he started a model railroad company.« |