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- 1.) Turning Dog.
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- The matchstick dog is shown facing west.
- The problem is to make him face East.
- You can do this easily by moving three matches,
- but can you do it by changing the position of only
- two matches? (The dog must keep his tail upturned.)
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- 2.) Five to Four.
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- Lay out 16 matches to form five squares of equal size.
- The challenge is to move only two matches and make four squares,
- all of the same size. All matches are used in the solution,
- and no loose ends left.
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- 3.) General Information Quickies.
-
- Here's a quick trivia test to help exercise your gray cells.
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- A.) In what way are a cucumber and an avocado opposites?
-
- A= Of all the raw vegetables, a cucumber has the least number of
- calories per ounce, an avocado the most.
-
- B.) What is the largest city in the world that is not built near on a river or
- by the sea?
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- A= Mexico City
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- C.) In what way does Parker Brothers, the game company outdo the United
- States Treasury?
-
- A= Each year, Parker Brothers prints more play money for its Monopoly
- games than the Treasury prints for real.
-
- D.) What do the steps on the Eiffel Tower have in common with the French
- Revolution?
-
- A= The number of steps match the year of the revolution: 1792
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- H.) Gateway Arch in St. Louis is 630 feet high. How wide is it?
-
- A= Base and height are both 630 feet.
-
- I.) How high will you have to count before you use the letter "a" in spelling
- the English name of a number?
-
- A= One thousand. (Incidently, "and" is not part of number names.
- It's "one hundred one." not ".... and one"
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- 4.) Mail Mix.
-
- A secretary typed eight letters to eight different people, and then addressed
- the eight envelopes. Unfortunately, the letters got all mixed up. If she puts
- letters in envelopes at random, what is the probability that exactly seven
- letters will go into the right envelopes?
-
- A= Zero. If seven letters match their envelopes, so will the eighth.
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- 5.) Disco.
-
- The next Prince album, we are told, will be 12 inches in diameter, with
- an outer lip half an inch wide. The diameter of the unused centre of the album,
- carrying the label, will be three inches. Grooves cut into the record will
- average 100 to the inch.
-
- Q1: Approximately how many groves will there be on each side of the
- record?
-
- A= One grove
-
- Q2: How far will a phonograph stylus travel when one side of the record is
- playing?
-
- A= Four inches. The record moves, not the stylus, so the number of
- Groves is not important. The stylus travels half the diameter
- of the record, less the outer blank area and half the inner
- blank area, for approximately four inches.
-
- 6.) Cards.
-
- Picture three playing cards laid out side by side. A ten is just to the right
- of a five. A ten is just to the left of a ten. There is a club just to the
- left of a spade, and a club just to the right of a club. What are the three
- cards?
-
- A= From left to right: a five of clubs, a ten of clubs, and a ten of
- spades.
-
- 7.) To Sum Up.
-
- Use the same arrangement of three cards. All three are spot cards. From the
- following clues, what is the value of each?
-
- 1. The total value of cards 1 & 2 is 15
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- 2. The total value of cards 2 & 3 is 17
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- 3. No card is a seven.
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- 4. No card has a value higher than nine.
-
- A= From left to right the cards are a six, a nine, and a eight.
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- 8.) Formerly known as.
-
- Times change, and so do places . On the numbered list below, are former names
- of some countries and cities around the world and lettered, the new, improved,
- and much preferred names. your job:
- match them up.
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- 1. Abyssinia
- 2. Belgian Congo
- 3. British Honduras
- 4. Ceylon
- 5. East Pakistan
- 6. Gold Coast (Not in Australia)
- 7. Hot Springs
- 8. Mauch Chunk
- 9. Northern Rhodesia
- 10. Persia
- 11. Saigon
- 12. St Petersburg
- 13. Siam
- 14. South west Africa
- 15. Stalingrad
- 16. Constantinople
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- A. Bangladesh
- B. Belize
- C. Ethiopia
- D. Ghana
- E. Ho Chi Minh City
- F. Iran
- G. Istanbul
- H. Jim Thorpe
- I. Leningrad
- J. Namibia
- K. Sri Lanka
- L. Thailand
- M. Truth or Consequences
- N. Volgograd
- O. Zaire
- P. Zambia
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- A= 1-C, 2-O, 3-B, 4-K, 5-A, 6-D, 7-M (a city in New Mexico)
- 8-H, (a Pennsylvania city), 9-P, 10-F, 11-E, 12-I 13-L
- 14-J, 15-N,16-G
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- 9.) Drink up.
-
- You have two bottles of beer, a premium brand an economy brand.
- The good one cost $2 more than the cheap one. You spent $2.20
- for both. How much did the economy brand cost?
-
- A= Ten cents. The expensive one was $2.10.(If you said $2 and 20 ç,
- that wouldn't add up. Two dollars is not $2 more than 20 ç, it
- is only $1.80 more.)
-
- 10.) Take Five.
-
- You have five coins and the challenge is to arrange them so that
- each coin touches the other four. It's easy to place four coins in
- mutual contact. But can you do it with five?
- See Coins1-a.iff or Coins1-a.gif
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- 11.) Sorry Bud.
-
- What is the maximum amount of money you can be carrying in U.S. coins
- without being able to give someone exact change for a nickel, a dime,
- a quarter, a 50-cent piece, or a dollar?
-
- A= One 50 cent piece, one quarter, four dimes, no nickels, and four
- pennies.
-
- 12.) Take TEN
-
- Take ten coins in a row. You may pick up any coin, jump over two adjacent
- coins, and place it on the next coin. The challenge is to make five such moves
- and leave five stacks of two coins each. You may jump over single coins or
- two-coin stacks.
-
- See Coins-a.iff or Coins-a.gif
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- 13.) Lost In America.
-
- You are driving along a dark country road and you pass through Boondock.
- The lights are on at the Boondock tavern but you decide not to stop.
- About 20 minutes later, you reach an intersection where five roads meet at one
- spot. Unfortunately, the road sign has been knocked over and damaged, so much
- so that you can't tell how it originally pointed. You can identify the five
- arrows pointing to Boondock, Crockville, Hicksburg, Resume Speed, and
- Kalamazoo. You are alone at the crossroads; there's no one to ask. How
- do you find out which of the roads leads to Kalamazoo, your destination.
-
- A= Pick up the sigh and point the correct arrow back to Boondock, the way
- you came; then all other arrows will point the right way.
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