Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jan 24, 2015)

Thirteen Syllables



Fill in the answers to the clues by using all the syllables. The number to be used is in parentheses.



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1. Military horn (2)

2. Make poor (4)

3. American Indian (3)

4. Foot part (2)

5. Evening event (2)





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1. Find a five-digit number in which the last number is the sum of the first, second, and third; the third is four less than the last; the fourth is two less than the last; and the first and fourth added are one less than the last. The last number is also three times the second.



2. What is the smallest integer that can be expressed as the sum of two squares in three different ways? The answer is less than 500?

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Today in History for 23rd January 2015

Historical Events

1490 - 1st printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul

1833 - Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation

1920 - Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies

1943 - 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record)

1971 - UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row

1977 - Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC

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Famous Birthdays

1827 - Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)

1910 - Django Reinhardt, Belgium, Gypsy jazz guitarist

1919 - Ernie Kovacs, Trenton NJ, comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show)

1947 - Gatewood Galbraith, [Louis], Carlisle, Kentucky, Lawyer, American political activist, iconic Kentucky political figure, (d. 2012)

1966 - Mike Brim, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)

1971 - Mark Grimmette, Ann Arbor Mich, doubles luger (Olympics-1994)

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Famous Deaths

1789 - John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709)

1891 - Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21

1981 - Samuel Barber, US composer (School for Scandal), dies at 70

1997 - Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist, dies at 67

1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)

2006 - Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)

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