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

Out of Order II



The following pairs of words can be unscrambled to make two words that go together, like "this & that." All pairs follow the same theme. Can you determine what they say?





DARK BOG = ______ + ______

COW MEAT = ______ + ______

ASHES SINK = ______ + ______

BRANDY YOKE = ______ + ______





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Brain Teaser 8/24/2014

1. A racing driver drove around a 6-mile track at 140 miles per hour for 3 miles, 168 miles per hour for 1.5 miles, and 210 miles per hour for 1.5 miles. What was his average speed for the entire 6 miles?



2. A girl is twice as old as her brother and half as old as her father. In 22 years, her brother will be half as old as his father. How old is the daughter now?

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Brain Teaser 8/23/2014

1. Only five of the words in the riddle-line below are common names (bird-types; subspecies) of gulls. The remaining one is a gull, too, but not a bird. Which one is the oddity?

Herring, California, Pigeon, Western, Iceland, Laughing



2. A farmer must spend exactly $100 to buy exactly 100 animals, and must buy at least one of each animal. Cows are $10 each, Goats are $1 each and Chickens are 8 for a $1. What does he buy?

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In this week’s insane Russian dash cam video, a man…

In this insane Belarusian dash cam video, a man made the most incredible recovery from a motorcycle accident I have ever seen.

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There’s a fish called the Goliath Grouper

There’s a fish called the Goliath Grouper and it can eat a shark in one bite.

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General Motors purposely kept the 1979 Chevy Malibu gas…

General Motors purposely kept the 1979 Chevy Malibu gas tank dangerously close to the rear of the vehicle. Instead of paying an extra $8.59 per vehicle to move the gas tank to a safer location, GM estimated that they would only have to pay $2.40 per vehicle to pay off personal-injury lawsuits.

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25 years ago, two million people joined their hands…

25 years ago, two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning over 600 kilometers (370 mi) across the three Baltic states in memory of the victims of the Soviet terror.

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Due to a compressed air leak, a worker in a subway tunnel under New York City…

Due to a compressed air leak, a worker in a subway tunnel under New York City’s East River was blown out of the tunnel, through the mud at the bottom of the river, up through the water, and 25 feet or so into the air. He received no serious injury.

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The FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming…

The FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Borat due to numerous reports of a “Middle eastern man traveling the Midwest in an ice cream truck.”

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While fleeing the Japanese in WWII Burma, a group of refugees spent…

While fleeing the Japanese in WWII Burma, a group of refugees spent two days carving a 270-foot staircase into a mountain so that they and 52 elephants could escape.

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Irrawaddy dolphins have developed a mutual relationship with local…

Irrawaddy dolphins have developed a mutual relationship with local fisherman by chasing fish into their nets in exchange for some leftover fish. This relationship has become so embedded that when a fisherman’s “own” dolphin helped a rival, he followed up with lawsuits.

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The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is a group…

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is a group that “supports human extinction primarily because… it would prevent environmental degradation.”

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If there was no space between electrons and the nucleus of an atom…

If there was no space between electrons and the nucleus of an atom, the entire human race could fit into the volume of a sugar cube.

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In 2011, Mythbusters accidentally fired a canonball…

In 2011, Mythbusters accidentally fired a canonball through a civilian’s house and hit a parked car.

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Today in History for 24th August 2014

Historical Events

1215 - Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid

1905 - Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings

1921 - Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey and Greece

1963 - John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'

1966 - USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon

1975 - Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens

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Famous Birthdays

1733 - David Traugott Nicolai, composer

1865 - Ferdinand I VAM, king of Romania

1942 - Max Cleland, American politician

1948 - Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of Republic of Korea Air Force

1959 - Michel Valke, Dutch soccer player (Sparta, Dordrecht '90)

1978 - Melissa McElroy, Houston Texas, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)

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Famous Deaths

1840 - Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89

1841 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)

1974 - Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)

1991 - Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indon writer (Camp Diary), dies at 86

1998 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)

2006 - Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (b. 1916)

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