Today's Daily Brain Teaser (May 05, 2014)

Add it Up 8



Beginning with "de", add letters from the given pool to create a seven-letter word which means "to withhold something". Do not rearrange the letters as you go.



Pool: E R V P I



1) DE

2) _ _ _

3) _ _ _ _

4) _ _ _ _ _

5) _ _ _ _ _ _

6) _ _ _ _ _ _ _



The hint gives definitions/clues for each additional word, except for the last word.





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Brain Teaser 5/4/2014

"About Time"



1. Two cyclists are racing around a circular track. Pierre can ride once around the track in 6 minutes, Louis takes 4 minutes. How many minutes will it take for Louis to lap Pierre?



2. A snail is at the bottom of a well 30 feet deep. It crawls up 3 feet each day, but at night, it slips down 2 feet. How long does it take for the snail to crawl out the well?

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Slam Dunking the Sun Optical Illusion

It’s Sunday, and I don’t know about you, but I’m certainly enjoying my weekend to the fullest. I’ve had a great time the past couple days enjoying the sun and hanging out with some friends. Today’s new optical illusion was actually inspired by what I’m going to go out and do today. Later, I’m going to call up some friends and see if they want to play some basketball. I have some new basketball shoes that I’ve been aching to try out and I’m always excited to shoot some hoops. How about you; do you like basketball? If so, who is your favorite team and how often do you play?

Today’s optical illusion, as I said, and as you could probably guess from the title, has to do with basketball. In this optical illusion, you’re going to see two guys playing basketball and one person seems to be slam dunking the sun in the picture. If that’s the case, I think this guy has talents that may even exceed Michael Jordan’s!

This is another one of those simple, but effective illusions that just show you that anyone is capable of creating their own optical illusions. You just have to have a creative mind to do it.

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Today in History for 4th May 2014

Historical Events

1471 - Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha

1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.

1964 - "Another World" and "As the World Turns" premieres on TV

1968 - 1st ABA championship: Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers, 4 games to 3

1975 - Houston's Bob Watson scores baseball's one-millionth run of all time

2007 - The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election and becomes the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time ever.

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Famous Birthdays

1825 - Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908)

1827 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)

1940 - Robin Cook, American novelist

1948 - Billy O'Donnell, harness racer driver of year (1984)

1967 - John Child, East York Ontario, beach volleyballer (Olympics-bronze-96)

1983 - Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress

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Famous Deaths

1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)

1770 - Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51

1919 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (b. 1880)

1980 - Kay Hammond, actress (Blithe SPirit, 5 Golden Hours), dies

1996 - Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87

2010 - Zvonimir Levačić - Ševa, Croatian humorist and entertainer (b. 1943)

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