Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jun 01, 2013)

Emotional Distress



I am feared by many people;

but scramble my letters

and I become hated.



What am I?





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Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Jun 01, 2013)

1980's Billboard Hot 100

Some of us can remember the 1980's, and some of us can't. But a lot of us can remember, back in the summer of 1981, when MTV started playing music videos all day, and all night. Those videos began to give Americans a different view of great rock and roll music. I'll give you the name of a song, the highest chart position, and year that the record peaked on The Billboard Hot 100 chart. All you have to do is correctly pick the artists.



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Vocabulary : Define Intelligence

Here's a little warm up exercise for your brain. Get a piece of paper or open a document on your computer where you can type something. Now, write your own definition for the word "Intelligence". Don't cheat yourself by looking it up on the internet or clicking on the link below. Take a few minutes and just write your own definition. Is it difficult to do? Why?



Now, look up the answer and see how close you got.

Creativity : Word Skipping

Pick a song from this list and recite it out loud. Now, recite it again but skip every other word. Then skip every third word, and so on, until you can't do it any more. This exercise helps with your concentration and mental endurance.



1. Mary Had a Little Lamb

2. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

3. The Alphabet Song



An example of skipping by two: Mary a lamb fleece white snow...

Memory : Patterns

Have you ever remembered a phone number by visualizing the pattern of telephone button pushes or by using a little math (416-2550: 4 squared is 16, 25 doubled is 50)? If so, then you have already used patterns to help you remember a fact.



Looking for patterns in dates, phone numbers, addresses, etc. will give you a much better chance at remembering the information later. This is because you've instantly made the information more meaningful, you've concentrated on it long enough to push it into long-term memory, and you've chunked it.



In the above example, you only need to remember "4 squared, 25 doubled" which is, at 4 chunks, much easier to remember than the original 7 chunks.

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THIS MAN IS NOT A CYBORG — YET - NECN

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Movie Review: 'Now You See Me' - Get The Big Picture (blog)

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Senior news: Brain teasers help keep us on our toes - Lufkin Daily News

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Brain teasers can help tease out how your brain works - Los Angeles Times

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Daily Sudoku: Sat 1-Jun-2013

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Daily Monster Sudoku: Sat 1-Jun-2013

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Daily Squiggly Sudoku: Sat 1-Jun-2013

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The Saturday Quiz - The Independent

The Saturday Quiz The Independent 1. Touching the Void, the mountaineering book by Joe Simpson, tells of an incident on which mountain range? 2. What was founded by David Karp, launched in 2007, and has just been sold for $1.1bn? 3. Rome is the capital of which Italian region? 4.

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Brain Teasers exhibit planned at Imaginarium - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier

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Movie Review: 'After Earth' - Get The Big Picture (blog)

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Brain Teasers 2 exhibit on display at Imaginarium - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier

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Brain Teaser Games May Slow Aging Mind - Yahoo! News

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Teams compete in challenges - Adobe Press

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The Saturday Quiz answers - The Independent

The Saturday Quiz answers The Independent ... Painting · China · Amsterdam · Artists · Gwyneth Paltrow. 1. Paris. 2. Writer's block. 3. The Levellers. 4. 10 metres. 5. The Grand Ole Opry. 6. Harold Pinter. 7. Hawaii. 8. South China Morning Post. 9. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (the painting is by ...

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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (May 31, 2013)

Five Spoonerisms



A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have the initial sounds switched to form new words. For example, "churning bear" is a spoonerism for "burning chair" (note that the pairs do not have to be spelled the same - only sound the same). From the definitions below, can you figure out the spoonerism pairs?



1. Thumper's cellphone...mis-named nerve.

2. Where to buy a mallard...jammed portal.

3. Grizzly relative...two pin-lovers.

4. Sad iguana...Merlin slam-dunking.

5. Wasp accelerates...Half a six-pack.





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