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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Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (May 31, 2013)

007 Movie Music

"Bond. James Bond." Test your brain against these familiar movie tunes for Britain's most famous secret agent.



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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Panegyric

pan-e-gyr-ic



noun :: An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse.



"Perry was right in the midst of a flowery panegyric on the wonders of the peaceful beauty of the scene when a canoe shot out from the nearest island." --Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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.

Letter: Surrogacy bill demeans human life - The Advocate

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Teams compete in challenges - Adobe Press

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Fearless Forecast: 'After Earth' Can't Win Against 'Now You See Me' - Get The Big Picture

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Daily Sudoku: Fri 31-May-2013

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Daily Monster Sudoku: Fri 31-May-2013

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Daily Squiggly Sudoku: Fri 31-May-2013

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Capital Quiz: Friday, May 31 - The Dominion Post

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New Spanish 'Machete Kills' Trailer Blows It's Way On To The Web - Get The Big Picture (blog)

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Play this: 'The Swapper,' a puzzle game about cloning in a claymation world - The Verge

Play this: 'The Swapper,' a puzzle game about cloning in a claymation world The Verge In side-scrolling indie game The Swapper, though, your solitude gets a lot more complicated. You're never really alone in The Swapper: with a click of the mouse, you can create up to four clones of yourself, using them to navigate the puzzle-filled ...

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Wanna See the Death Star Destroy the USS Enterprise? Yeah You Do - Get The Big Picture (blog)

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Astraware announces first game release for BlackBerry Z10 - Gamasutra

Astraware announces first game release for BlackBerry Z10 Gamasutra Astraware Crosswords is a popular and well-loved version of this favorite puzzle game and pastime. It offers 45 built-in puzzles in 3 different grid sizes and 3 graded difficulty levels. The game is packed with features users love, including unlimited ...

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Hay Festival 2013: day seven as it happened - Telegraph.co.uk

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