Saturday, 25 October 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Oct 26, 2014)

Six Out of Seven Ain't Bad



Fill in the missing words in the movie titles below. Those six words form a group, but the seventh member is missing. Can you find the missing word?



1. _____s with Morrie

2. Freaky _____

3. Ash _____

4. First _____ in October

5. Any Given _____

6. _____ Night Fever





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Brain Teaser 10/25/2014

As you are reading this message, you will notice some spelling errors. Do not be frigtened, however. This is how you must anelyze:

First, find al of the missing, repeated, or incorrect letters.

Second, alow yurself to look at these and look at the wword that is represinted.

Finally, tell me a numbur that most commonnly is associated with the word.

Solution

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Sixty years ago a soccer match ground…

UFOs-cropped Sixty years ago a soccer match ground to a halt when unidentified flying objects were spotted above a stadium in Florence. “They were moving very fast and then they just stopped. It all lasted a couple of minutes.” Ten-thousand fans were watching the game in the concrete bowl of the Stadio Artemi Franchi. But just after half-time the stadium fell eerily silent – then a roar went up from the crowd. The spectators were no longer watching the match, but were looking up at the sky, fingers pointing. The players stopped playing, the ball rolled to a stand-still.






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An Australian man committed suicide by shooting himself…

An Australian man committed suicide by shooting himself in chest with a shotgun, then in the head with a pistol, then in the throat with a shotgun, then in the chest again with a shotgun.






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Elizabeth Taylor’s apparent dark outlined eyes…

e-taylor-cropped Elizabeth Taylor’s apparent dark outlined eyes were due to a rare genetic mutation giving her “double eyelashes”.






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After Samuel L. Jackson agrees to star in “Snakes on a…

Snakes-on-Plane After Samuel L. Jackson agrees to star in “Snakes on a Plane”, producers tried to change the title but did not because Jackson agreed to do the film based on the title alone.






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There is a non-profit organization that provides free…

There is a non-profit organization that provides free course books. Free, not pirated. The organization is funded by the likes of Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Rice University and the Hewlett Foundation and aims at making higher education available to more people.






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A man wrote his own credit card contract then sued…

A man wrote his own credit card contract then sued the bank for breaking the contract’s terms.






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Groomsmen (specifically bride’s-groomsmen…

Groomsmen (specifically bride’s-groomsmen) were originally at weddings to protect the bride from being captured by another suitor.






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A couple bought a box of textbooks for $10…

25-cent-texas-exchequer-note-cropped A couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas. It sold for over $63,000.






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Today in History for 25th October 2014

Historical Events


1870 - Postcards first used in USA

1900 - Great Britain annexes the former Boer South African Republic, renaming it the Transvaal Colony

1930 - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center

1968 - Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby

1977 - Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.

2009 - The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.


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Famous Birthdays


1904 - [Herman] Denny Shute, Cleveland Ohio, American golfer and three-time major champion

1912 - Jack Kent Cooke, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)

1964 - Nicole, German singer

1970 - Ed Robertson, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)

1975 - Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian musician

1979 - Tony Torcato, American baseball player


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Famous Deaths


1892 - Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1892), dies at 60

1929 - James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (two Tests for England 1877), dies

1936 - Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet, dies at 76

1988 - Bill Cody, actor (Blazing Justice, Ghost City), dies at 75

1993 - Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54

2010 - Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951)


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