Daily Brain Teasers for Friday, 12 January 2018
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Chess Knight Move
Find the country and its capital city, using the move of a chess knight. First letter is C. Length of words in solution: 7,6.Calculate the number 8766
NUMBERMANIA: Calculate the number 8766 using numbers [7, 5, 4, 5, 14, 725] and basic arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /). Each of the numbers can be used only once.Guess the Band Name
Which musician band has an album with a cover as in the picture?Wedding a Virgin
A man longs to wed a maiden with her virtue intact. He searches for one but resigns himself to the fact that every female over the age of 10 in his town has been at it.
Finally he decides to take matters in hand and adopts a baby girl from the orphanage. He raises her until she is walking and talking and then sends her away to a monastery for safekeeping until marrying age. After many years she finally reaches maturity and he retrieves her from the monastery and marries her.
After the wedding they make their way back to his house and into the bedroom where they both prepare themselves for the consummation. They lie down together in his bed and he reaches over for a jar of petroleum jelly.
"Why the jelly," she asks him?
"So I do not hurt your most delicate parts during the act of lovemaking," he replies.
"Well why don't you just spit on your cock like the monks did?!"
MAGIC SQUARE: Calculate A-B*C
The aim is to place the some numbers from the list (4, 8, 15, 21, 22, 25, 26, 29, 32, 33) into the empty squares and squares marked with A, B an C. Sum of each row and column should be equal. All the numbers of the magic square must be different. Find values for A, B, and C. Solution is A-B*C.Edison patentIn 1919, a U.S. patent for a "Method and Means for Improving the Rendition of Musical Compositions" was issued to Thomas A. Edison. His patent application was dated three years earlier, on 12 Jan 1916 (No. 1,323,218). |