The Crafty Puzzles Company: February 2015

Saturday 28 February 2015

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Mar 01, 2015)

Guarded Queen

I am a queen, beautiful and

Covered with a sweet fragrance,

Guarded by five guardsmen,

Two of them clean-shaven,

Two of them unshaven,

And the last one half-shaven.

What am I?

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Brain Teaser 3/1/2015

A perplexing problem is how to get yourself, a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain across a river. Your boat is only large enough to carry you and one of the others at any one crossing. Yet, if you leave the fox alone with the chicken he will devour it. And should you leave the chicken alone with the grain you would inevitably have to take both at once since the one would be inside the other. How can they all be taken safely across without any unwanted lunch stops during the process?

Solution

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It's Time For A Snack

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Brain Teaser 2/28/2015

If Brazil is east of New York, cross out all the W's and X's. If not, cross out all the A's. If Henry VIII lived in the same century as Columbus, cross out all the Y's. If not, cross out the M's and N's. If Golden Gate Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the world, cross out all the S's and E's. If not, cross out all the I's and Z's. What word do you have left?

Solution

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Brain Teaser 2/28/2015

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Today in History for 28th February 2015

Historical Events

1728 - George F Handel's opera "Siroe, re di Persia" premieres in London

1861 - Territories of Nevada and Colorado created

1976 - Spain withdraws from Western Sahara

1977 - 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles California)

1980 - "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m)

1983 - Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch in the US

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Famous Birthdays

1940 - Mario Andretti, Italian American race-car driver (1969 Indianapolis 500, 1978 Formula One World Champion)

1943 - Donnie Iris [Dominic Ierace}, Ellwood City Pennsylvania, rock musician

1952 - Melissa Babish, SC, swimmer (Olympic)

1964 - Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist

1969 - Butch Leitzinger, American race car driver

1969 - Patrick Monahan, American singer (Train)

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Famous Deaths

1453 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)

1796 - Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 56

1844 - Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton

1985 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)

1987 - Nora Kaye, US ballet dancer, dies at 67

2011 - Peter Gomes, Harvard University Chaplain (b. 1942)

More Famous Deaths »

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The Tsar Bomba, which was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated…

The Tsar Bomba, which was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, yielded 50-58 megatons of TNT. That is equivalent to about 10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used by all the armies in WW2.

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Wilt Chamberlain, one of the greatest players in NBA history, was a noted scorer on and…

Wilt Chamberlain, one of the greatest players in NBA history, was a noted scorer on and off the court. He was a lifelong bachelor, and claimed to have had sex with over 20,000 different women.

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In 1982, “Lawn Chair Larry” took flight in a homemade airship which consisted…

In 1982, “Lawn Chair Larry” took flight in a homemade airship which consisted of an ordinary patio chair attached to 45 helium-filled weather balloons. Armed with a pellet gun, he rose to over 15,000 feet, and enjoyed cold beer and sandwiches before making his miraculous descent.

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The Beastie Boys coined the term “mullet” to refer to a hairstyle in 1994…

The Beastie Boys coined the term “mullet” to refer to a hairstyle in 1994 in their song “Mullet Head”. No earlier use of the term “mullet” that refers to a hairstyle has been found.

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Friday 27 February 2015

A man in Africa single handedly stopped the desertification of his region…

A man in Africa single handedly stopped the desertification of his region by reviving ancient farming and irrigation techniques despite being ridiculed by his community.

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Canada sterilized indigenous school girls till…

Canada sterilized indigenous school girls till the mid 1990s.

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Men and women see colors differently. In general, women are better at discriminating…

Men and women see colors differently. In general, women are better at discriminating among colors while men excel at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance.

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53% of US cable customers would leave their current provider if they had a choice…

53% of US cable customers would leave their current provider if they had a choice and 73% feel their cable provider engages in “predatory practices”.

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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Feb 28, 2015)

Pedantic Time

What do these five movie titles have in common?

1. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit

3. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

4. Eight Legged Freaks

5. The Ladies Man

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Coffee with Foamy Cat Optical Illusion

Good morning everyone and welcome to the last Friday in February! March begins this weekend, and with it is supposed to come the warmer weather, but we just have to wait and see! So, since this is Friday, we decided to show you a very cool optical illusion! How many of you are about to have a nice cup of coffee? Now, we have featured plenty of optical illusions involving coffee, and some that have featured foam in the coffee looking like an elephant before, but we have never seen an optical illusion like this ever! Check out today’s optical illusion, which is all about a foamy cat that looks like it is about to reach its paw down and grab some unsuspecting swimming fish. Whoever did this foamy cat and fish is one talented barista, and the coffee is so cool who can possibly drink it?

Ready for another illusion involving a hidden cat? This illusion is really hard because we have trouble finding the cat, but do you all see this furry feline? Well you have to look close, and if you happen to find the cat, please leave us a comment and let us know because it’s quite possible that some of us need glasses! Have a good day!

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If the strange matter hypothesis is correct, it is speculated that a strangelet…

If the strange matter hypothesis is correct, it is speculated that a strangelet coming into contact with an ordinary lump of matter could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter. In a disaster scenario, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted, and Earth is reduced to a hot, large lump of strange matter.

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In the aftermath of WW2, over 1500 scientists, technicians, and engineers from Nazi…

In the aftermath of WW2, over 1500 scientists, technicians, and engineers from Nazi Germany and other foreign countries were recruited by the United States instead of being prosecuted for war crimes. In fact, the German rocket program was a significant contributor to NASA’s entry into the space race.

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During the 1943 NFL season, both the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers…

During the 1943 NFL season, both the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers had lost so many players to military service during WW2, that they were forced to temporarily merge in to the Steagles.

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Project MKUltra was an illegal and clandestine program of experiments on human subjects…

Project MKUltra was an illegal and clandestine program of experiments on human subjects designed and undertaken by the CIA in the 1950s, which intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual to force confessions through mind control.

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A couple of PETA members, after attending an anti-hunting campaign…

A couple of PETA members, after attending an anti-hunting campaign, wrecked into a deer. They followed up by suing the New Jersey Game Department claiming that their deer management program was to blame.

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There was a man-made mouse utopia called Universe 25. It started with…

There was a man-made mouse utopia called Universe 25. It started with 4 males and 4 females. The colony peaked at 2200 and from there declined to extinction. Once a tipping point was reached, the mice lost instinctual behaviors. Scientists extrapolate this model to humans on earth.

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Brain Teaser 2/27/2015

Dying Words

What actor or actress made his or her final exit, so to speak, with these words? And in what films?

1. "We--belong-dead."

2. "Coulda been whole world Willie Stark."

3. "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?"

4. "What the hell happened?"

5. "I tripped."

6. "That's mighty brave talk for a one-eyed fat man."

7. "Good. For a minute I thought we were in trouble."

8. "Yaho--yee-ha! yaaaa-hooooooo!"

9. "--upon the seat of a bicycle--built-for-two."

10. "Tell Manny he's got to go on-got to see our grandson-for both

Solution

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Bill Gates plans to donate 95% of his $81.1 billion dollar wealth…

Bill Gates plans to donate 95% of his $81.1 billion dollar wealth to charity. That’s about $77 billion dollars

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Owls fly silently due to specially designed edges of their primary feathers…

Owls fly silently due to specially designed edges of their primary feathers. When most birds fly, turbulence from air gushing over their wings creating noise. However, owls have their primary feathers serrated like a comb, which divides turbulence into tiny currents aka micro-turbulences.

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In 2009, Detroit had a worse unemployment rate than…

In 2009, Detroit had a worse unemployment rate than during the Great Depression.

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Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically capable of holding 455 exabytes…

Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically capable of holding 455 exabytes – enough for all the data held by Google, Facebook and every other major tech company, with room to spare

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