Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Apr 25, 2014)

Delete Some Letters #2



In this teaser your task is to discover words, names and phrases relating to the holiday season.



You are to delete a few letters in each unrelated phrase in order to show the holiday. The remaining letters will be in the right order.



For example:



1. EACH WRIST MASHED



becomes: **CH *RIST MAS***





1. FROGS TRY THEM SO NO WORM CAN (delete 7 letters)



2. CLINT TILED RED HUMMER BODY (delete 7 letters)



3. SPRINT FACE OFF PREFACE (delete 7 letters)



4. THE CREEP WISHES A MENU (delete 7 letters)





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Today in History for 24th April 2014

Historical Events

1867 - Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars

1920 - British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)

1980 - US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die

1983 - Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election

1984 - Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot

2004 - The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.

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Famous Birthdays

1814 - Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire

1903 - Mike Michalske, NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers)

1922 - J D Cannon, Salmon Idaho, actor (McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory)

1927 - Pasqualino de Santis, cinematographer

1948 - Eddie James Hart, Martinez Cal, 4x100m relay runner (Olympic-gold-72)

1973 - Jamie Brown, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos)

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Famous Deaths

1622 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (b. 1577)

1850 - Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70

1959 - Jef van Hoof, composer, dies at 72

1965 - Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86

1968 - Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), dies at 45

1975 - William Hartnell, actor (Jackpot, This Sporting Life), dies at 67

More Famous Deaths »

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Brain Teaser 4/24/2014

1. The logic professor posted a notice on his class door: "Class is canceled today on account of spring. We will meet again at 1:00 P.M. three days after two days before the day before tomorrow." What day does the class meet?



2. Between noon and midnight, but not counting these times, how often will the minute hand and hour hand of a clock overlap?

Solution

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