Daily Brain Teasers for Tuesday, 14 April 2020
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Can you replace the question mark with a number?
MATH PUZZLE: Can you replace the question mark with a number? 
Chess Knight Move
Find the title of movie, using the move of a chess knight. First letter is S. Length of words in solution: 6,9. 
Any little ones yet?
Mrs. O'Donovan was walking down O'Connell Street in Dublin, and coming in the opposite direction was Father O'Rafferty.
"Hello," said the Father, "And how is Mrs. O'Donovan, didn't I marry you two years ago?"
"You did that, Father."
"And are there any little ones yet?"
"No, not yet, Father." Said she.
"Well now, I'm going to Rome next week, and I'll light a candle for you."
"Thank-you, Father." And away she went.
A few years later they met again.
"Well now, Mrs. O'Donovan," said the Father, "how are you?"
"Oh, very well," said she.
"And tell me," he said, "have you any little ones yet?"
"Oh yes, Father. I've had three sets of twins, and four singles - ten in all."
"Now isn't that wonderful," he said "And how is your lovely husband?"
"Oh," she said, "he's over in Rome to blow that bloody \\candle out!"
Find the right combination
The computer chose a secret code (sequence of 4 digits from 1 to 6). Your goal is to find that code. Black circles indicate the number of hits on the right spot. White circles indicate the number of hits on the wrong spot. Titanic distress call received in NYIn 1912, David Sarnoff picked up a message of distress call of the Titanic relayed from ships at sea: “S.S. Titanic ran into iceberg, sinking fast.”Sarnoff, aged 21, was a telegraph operator managing a powerful Marconi radio telegraph station on top of Wannamaker's department store in New York. He stayed at his post for 72 hours, receiving and transmitting the first authentic information on the disaster. He relayed the names of the rescued from the Carpathia telegraph operator to newsmen and frantic family members. Sarnoff went on to become a pioneer in radio and television broadcasting: He founded NBC in 1926, created an experimental television station for NBC in 1928, and became president and chairman of RCA. |
Chess Knight Move
Find the title of movie, using the move of a chess knight. First letter is N. Length of words in solution: 5,2,9. Can you replace the question mark with a number?
MATH PUZZLE: Can you replace the question mark with a number? 
Can you name the athletes by the picture?
Can you name the athletes by the picture? CINEMANIA: Guess the movie title
See negative of movie scene and guess the title. Length of words in solution: 4,4,1,4,2,9 Remove 5 letters from this seq...
Remove 5 letters from this sequence (CAELAIMIZITYY) to reveal a familiar English word. Calculate the number 2517
NUMBERMANIA: Calculate the number 2517 using numbers [6, 5, 8, 3, 22, 449] and basic arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /). Each of the numbers can be used only once. 
