Saturday 8 November 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Nov 09, 2014)

Peculiar Sentence



What's so peculiar about this sentence?



I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications' incomprehensibleness.





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Brain Teaser 11/8/2014

I'm a 5 digit number,

the first and last digits are the same and add up to an even number.

Multiply that number by its self and the number is under 10 and odd.

That will be the fourth number.

Subtract five from it and it will be the second number.

Divide it in half and that is my third number.

What am I?

Solution

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A pair of soft drinks were sold in Singapore called…

anything-whatever A pair of soft drinks were sold in Singapore called Anything and Whatever. While each offered six flavors, the cans were identical, so you didn’t know what flavor you were going to get.






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Charles Rigoulot a french weightlifter was….

Charles Rigoulot a french weightlifter was jailed for hitting a Nazi guard, but broke out of his jail cell by bending the bars. He allowed other prisoners to escape as well. Then beat the guard who jailed him.






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Scientists have genetically altered chickens…

chicken Scientists have genetically altered chickens to express DNA that their dinosaur ancestors once possessed. Eventually, they grew teeth.






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Medals won by US Olympians are considered earned…

Olympians Medals won by US Olympians are considered earned income and therefore subjected to an IRS taxation – up to 39%.






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Today in History for 8th November 2014

Historical Events


1904 - Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug

1942 - Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa

1953 - Salazar's party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal

1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open

1980 - Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn

1990 - Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World


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Famous Birthdays


1592 - Domenico Mazzocchi, composer

1896 - Bucky Harris, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)

1898 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)

1909 - Alberto Erede, Italian conductor

1968 - Michelle Kline, Circle Pines Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)

1977 - Jully Black, Canadian RandB singer


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Famous Deaths


1226 - Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39

1517 - Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, cardinal/Chancellor of Castilia, dies

1858 - George Peacock, English Mathematician, dies at 67

1886 - Frederick J "Fred" Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29

1963 - Simon Jurovsky, composer, dies at 51

1992 - Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952), dies


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