Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Aug 21, 2014)

Name Train II



A Name Train is a puzzle where each name is connected together like box cars in a train. You are given the first car (the Engine) and the last car (the caboose), and you have to fill in the car or cars in between. Every two consecutive cars will form a name of a person or character. Joan [ ] Li. The answer is Joan Jet Li (Joan Jet-Female singer, Jet Li-Actor) Ready? OK here goes:



1. Matthew [ ] Mason

2. Bruce [ ] Majors

3. Larry [ ] [ ] Fonda

4. Ashley [ ] [ ] Mandela

5. Rick [ ] [ ] [ ] Luther







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Today in History for 20th August 2014

Historical Events

1828 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory" premieres in Paris

1958 - Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years

1978 - Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)

1986 - Postal worker Patrick Sherrill shot 14 fellow workers dead in Edmond, Oklahoma

1989 - Dredger "Bow Belle" collides with pleasure boat "Marchioness" on the River Thames in central London; the "Marchioness" sinks in 30 seconds, drowning 51

1995 - "The Play's the Thing" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 75 performances

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Famous Birthdays

1847 - Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889)

1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Naples Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959), (d. 1968)

1949 - Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer

1974 - Szabolcs Sáfár, Hungarian footballer

1975 - Marcus Mastin, American author

1981 - Benjamin Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)

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Famous Deaths

1679 - Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60

1804 - Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

1978 - Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86

1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91

2007 - Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto (b. 1942)

2008 - Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American politician (b. 1949)

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One of the most sacred shrines in Japan is torn down and rebuilt…

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