Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Feb 11, 2015)

"I Can Answer Anything"



Jake and his friend Paco had very famous challenge sessions at their school. One would suggest something they could do, and the other would prove it wrong somehow.



One day, Jake surprised Paco by stating: "I can answer any question in the world."



Sure that he would win the challenge, Paco accepted the task of proving it wrong. He wrote up a test full of impossible questions. After a while, Jake returned the test. Paco unbelievably lost the challenge and told Jake he could indeed answer any question. How did Jake win?





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In 2011, Chinese artist Peiwen Liu got down on one knee to propose to his…

In 2011, Chinese artist Peiwen Liu proposed to his girlfriend. But things didn’t go smoothly: the girl jokingly told him she would marry him only if he walked 1,000 miles for her. Peiwen took her words literally and set off to walk from the town of Anyang to Guangzhou, a city around 1,000 miles away, where his girlfriend’s parents lived. Carrying a backpack and a red flag reading “Eager to meet my mother-in-law,” he walked about 25 miles a day. He even started to blog his experiences, which included a terrifying incident in which he was almost murdered by cows. By the time Peiwen was a week away from his destination, his fiance was already sending him text messages telling him to give it up and go home. When he persevered and arrived in the city, she sent him a text that read “I will not spend the rest of my life with you” and then switched off her phone.

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The New York Times wrote an article about every single…

The New York Times wrote an article about every single September the 11th Victim.

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There is a Buddhist Temple complex in Thailand made out…

There is a Buddhist Temple complex in Thailand made out of over 1.5 million empty beer bottles.

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A man had a stroke in 2004, seriously damaging his frontal lobes. He was…

A man had a stroke in 2004, seriously damaging his frontal lobes. He was left with very limited movement on the left side of his body. It also left him with ‘the inability to ever feel sad again‘.

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Brain Teaser 2/10/2015

1. A grandfather clock chimes the appropriate number of times to indicate the hour, as well as chiming once at each quarter hour. If you were in another room and heard the clock chime just once, what would be the longest period of time you would have to wait in order to be certain of the correct time?



2. Gary began peeling a pile of 44 potatoes at the rate of 3 per minute. Four minutes later, Christen joined him, and peeled at the rate of 5 potatoes per minute. When they were finished, how many potatoes had each peeled?

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Today in History for 10th February 2015

Historical Events

1923 - Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company

1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia

1959 - Tornado in St Louis kills 19 and injures 265

1969 - LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94

1997 - Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991

2007 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 31-28

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Famous Birthdays

1827 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder

1870 - Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter

1893 - William [Bill] T Tilden II, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29)

1904 - John Farrow, Sydney Aust, director/actor (Botany Bay, Wake Island)

1945 - John Hayes, secretary-general (British Law Society)

1974 - Elizabeth Banks, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, American actress (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Man on a Ledge)

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Famous Deaths

1822 - Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon-Teschen/governor of Hungary, dies at 83

1912 - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic), dies

1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50

1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)

1992 - Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70

2006 - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)

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