Sunday, 18 May 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (May 19, 2014)

Sylasearch 4



In a sylasearch I give you a syllable-starter, which is the first syllable in the words you are to find. I will also give you a listing of the other syllables that you must use to figure out the 8 words.



Syllable List - al, cute, fec, form, fume, i, ma, mis, mit, nent, se, sion, son, tion, ty



Syllable-starter: per



How many syllables each word has:



1. (2)

2. (2)

3. (2)

4. (3)

5. (3)

6. (3)

7. (3)

8. (5)





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Brain Teaser 5/18/2014

1. If SIX is TEN, ONE is HIS, and FIVE is LEGS, what is SEVEN?



2. Two men play five games of checkers. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no ties. Explain this.



3. What belongs to you, but others use it more than you do?

Solution





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A 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive…

A 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife’s remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was “… I want to go home”, and he is determined to make that happen.






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Today in History for 18th May 2014

Historical Events


1596 - Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya

1869 - Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan.

1959 - "Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52

1974 - India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb

1991 - USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station

1992 - Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs


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Famous Birthdays


1911 - Joe Turner, KC, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle and Roll)

1940 - A Marshall Stoneham, FRS, physicist

1948 - Felix MH Troch, Flemish actor/director (Gekkenbriefje)

1968 - Ernie Logan, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars, NY Jets)

1975 - Peter Iwers, Swedish bass player (In Flames)

1983 - Vince Young, American football player


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Famous Deaths


1410 - Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies

1550 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498)

1910 - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b.1841)

1967 - Andy Clyde, Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick, dies at 75

1972 - Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer, dies at 53

1996 - Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor, dies at 76


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But your shoes are strangely appropriate


No I don’t, I trendy rule!





Shirt found in Tokyo clothing store.







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The Godzilla suit used in the 1954 classic was so thick and heavy…

The Godzilla suit used in the 1954 classic was so thick and heavy that the actor couldn’t be inside it for more than three minutes to avoid suffocation, and he would often suffer bouts of dehydration and heat exhaustion, to the point where he passed out. The suit even had to include a valve to drain all the sweat from it.






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There is a species of fungus that only exists in Texas…

Chorioactis There is a species of fungus that only exists in Texas and rural Japan, and is thought to have been in both places for 19 million years.






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The IRS has instructions for employees on how to collect…

The IRS has instructions for employees on how to collect taxes after a nuclear war.






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People without light stimulation from the sun (i.e. in a cave…

People without light stimulation from the sun (i.e. in a cave) tend to have a 25 hour sleep-wake cycle.






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In response to her husband’s infidelity, a woman from Prague decided to commit…

In response to her husband’s infidelity, a woman from Prague decided to commit suicide by jumping from her third-story balcony. By chance she happened to land on her spouse below, cushioning her fall. She survived, but he died.






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A man bought a house next to his ex-wife so he can install a giant middle…

middle-finger-cropped A man bought a house next to his ex-wife so he can install a giant middle finger statue for her to see everyday.






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