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

7 Letter Replacement



The ******* doctor said "I think ******* Seaman Jones will have to wait as I am ******* to do the operation as there is *******."



Exchange the stars with the same seven letters in the same order in each case.





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Grown Man Gets PS4 For Christmas And It Turns Him Giddy Like A Child

This man had been saving up for a PlayStation 4 all year, but had his hopes dashed when he needed to spend the money on other things.



His wife decided to buy him the console for Christmas, and luckily for us, she filmed his reaction.



The joy and excitement from opening the gift fills him with child-like glee, which is really rather lovely, isn't it? http://ift.tt/eA8V8J



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Brain Teaser 12/24/2014

Follow the steps to change one string of letters to a different one. The starting string is NONSPEAKINGSOLDIER, and your clue for the ending string's pun is "Christmas!"



1) Eliminate all 15's.

2) Eliminate all 14's.

3) Remove the summit.

4) Change "DIE" into its antonym.

5) Change the last five letters to "the opposite of day".

6) Eliminate the second 19.

7) Eliminate the first 7.

8) Insert 5-14-20-11 between the 12 and the 14.

Solution

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Everything Pizza

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Sammy Nahas, a 38-year-old electrician from Staten Island, has spent…

Sammy Nahas, a 38-year-old electrician from Staten Island, has spent over $100,000 on Christmas decorations in the last three years. This year alone, he estimates spending around $60,000. The season isn’t all cheery and bright for Nahas. After finalizing a divorce three years ago, he said that Christmas Day actually became the most depressing day of the year for him. But once it’s over, he starts planning for next year.

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The earliest piece of great literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh…

The earliest piece of great literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, includes a story in which Utnapishtim is told to build a ship to save the animals of the world from a “great flood”. Nearly 2,000 years later, a similar tale with different names appeared in the Bible’s book of Genesis.

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During WW2 two polish doctors saved the lives of 8,000 Jews by faking…

During WW2 two polish doctors saved the lives of 8,000 Jews by faking a typhus epidemic that stopped the Nazis entering their town.

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Sid Meier didn’t include multiplayer in the original Civilization…

Sid Meier didn’t include multiplayer in the original Civilization game because “if you had friends, you wouldn’t need to play computer games.”

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Today in History for 24th December 2014

Historical Events

1930 - F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa" premieres in Madrid

1932 - Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile

1935 - Bradman scores 233 in 191 mins, SA v Queensland, 28 fours 1 six

1956 - Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt

1971 - Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later

1992 - US President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger for Iran-contra affair

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Famous Birthdays

1745 - Benjamin Rush, Byberry Pa, physician/general/signer (Decl of Indep)

1829 - Benjamin Ipavec, composer

1900 - Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991)

1904 - Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist.

1982 - Aiba Masaki, Japanese singer and actor

1982 - Robert Carmine, American singer

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Famous Deaths

1889 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819)

1987 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)

1994 - John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65

1994 - Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace, singer, dies at 57

1996 - Nguyen Huu Tho, Pres of Vietnam (1980-81), dies

2009 - Rafael Caldera, lawyer, sociologist, writer, speaker, politician, and ex-president of Venezuela (b. 1916)

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