Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Feb 05, 2015)

Anagram Dictionary



You are given five words and five definitions. Each of the words can be anagrammed into a two word phrase that fits one of the definitions. Your task is to assign each definition to its corresponding word.

Example - cobalt: to hit a feline in a high arc (cat lob)



Words: chameleon, medium, physical, president, tungsten



Definitions:

a boat constructed of thick mud-like soil

a cozy canvas shelter

a device for trapping tarantulas

a not too bright bird

a tidy house





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In that Quebec, Sweden and Norway it is illegal to advertise to children. This to…

In that Quebec, Sweden and Norway it is illegal to advertise to children. This to keep companies from encouraging children to beg their parents for stuff.

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A Japanese zoo unsuccessfully tried to mate a pair of hyenas…

A Japanese zoo unsuccessfully tried to mate a pair of hyenas for four years before realizing both were males.

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Lemon juice makes fish taste and smell less ‘fishy’ because its acid…

Lemon juice makes fish taste and smell less ‘fishy’ because its acid neutralizes a chemical group in the fish called amines, making them non-volatile and stopping the smell.

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Kids who try to act cool in their early teens are more likely…

Kids who try to act cool in their early teens are more likely to have alcohol and relationship problems later in life.

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The Greeks had proposed heliocentrism 2000 years before Copernicus: Aristarchus…

The Greeks had proposed heliocentrism 2000 years before Copernicus: Aristarchus arranged the planets in order of distance from the Sun, concluding that it could not be in orbit around the Earth because a body that large could not orbit a body so small.

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There is a man trying to get a new letter in to the alphabet…

There is a man trying to get a new letter in to the alphabet to replace the word “the”.

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Brain Teaser 2/4/2015

WHAT KIND?



1. What kind of water never freezes?



2. What kind of rocks are on the bottom of the Mississippi River?



3. What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?



4. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?

Solution

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Today in History for 4th February 2015

Historical Events

1822 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa

1913 - National Institute of Arts and Letters founded

1962 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt

1962 - Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game

1968 - "Golden Rainbow" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances

1994 - 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins

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Famous Birthdays

1910 - Alfred Mendelsohn, composer

1914 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head)

1958 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer

1968 - Marko Matvere, Estonian actor

1978 - Laurence Borremans, Miss Belgium Universe (1997)

1982 - Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist

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Famous Deaths

1505 - Joan of Valois, Queen of France/saint, dies at 40

1896 - Henry David Leslie, composer, dies at 73

1928 - Hendrik A Lorentz, physicist (L transformation-Nobel 1902), dies at 74

1982 - Sue Carol, actress (She's My Weakness), dies at 73 of a heart attack

1982 - Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)

1994 - Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79

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