Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Mar 08, 2015)

An Ear to Lend



She's always ready to lend an ear

With hair so light

Too bad you she won't hear

The devil inside her

Is ready to burst

But lucky for you,

Of imps he's not the worst.



What is she?





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Daniel Norris, a 21yo baseball player who recently joined the Toronto Bluejays with…

Daniel Norris, a 21yo baseball player who recently joined the Toronto Bluejays with a $2,000,000 signing bonus, lives and sleeps in a VW bus. He has also never drunk alcohol, works part time in the off-season at a retail store, and spends no more than $800 a month.

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A species of squid has been observed to leap from the ocean and use pressurized water…

A species of squid has been observed to leap from the ocean and use pressurized water jets to achieve flight, going as far as 98 feet.

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Texas cancelled its last meal program after an inmate ordered two chicken fried steaks…

Texas cancelled its last meal program after an inmate ordered two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a large bowl of fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream, and a slab of peanut butter fudge and didn’t eat any of it.

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US Marine John Kelly was the last person to be awarded 2 Medals of Honor. He ran…

US Marine John Kelly was the last person to be awarded 2 Medals of Honor. He ran 100 yards in advance of the front line and attacked an enemy machine gun nest, killed the gunner with a grenade, shot another man with his pistol, and returned with 8 prisoners. He was 19.

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After 2 US officers were killed while trying to cut down a tree in the DMZ…

After 2 US officers were killed while trying to cut down a tree in the DMZ, the US and South Korea sent 813 soldiers, 27 helicopters and nuclear-capable bombers to the DMZ to supervise the cutting down of the tree. North Korean soldiers watched in silence as the tree was cut down in 42 minutes.

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Brain Teaser 3/7/2015

Four athletes, Ann, Bea, Carol, and Dorothy went out one morning and ran a race. At the end of

the race, the following statements were made:

Ann: "I didn't come in first or last."

Bea: "I didn't come in last."

Carol: "I was first."

Dorothy: "I was last."

It is known that one, and one only, of the four athletes is lying.

Who won the race?

Solution

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Brain Teaser 3/6/2015

A Little Math Fun?



1. A certain number consists of two digits. The number is equal to five times the sum of its digits. If you add 9 to the number, the order of its digits is reversed. What is the number?



2. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, and the only food she had for her ten children was six potatoes. How did she make sure that each child had an equal share?

Solution

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Today in History for 7th March 2015

Historical Events

1870 - Cin Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest and East

1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1976 - Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria

1981 - 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death

1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV

2011 - Charlie Sheen is fired from the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men"

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Famous Birthdays

1663 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer

1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)

1707 - Stephen Hopkins, (Gov-RI) signed Decl of Ind

1785 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)

1930 - James Broderick, Charlestown, New Hampshire, American actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Family)

1962 - Peter Manley, English Darts Player

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Famous Deaths

161 - Antoninus Pius [Titus Aurelius], emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at 74

1578 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)

1737 - Guido Starhemberg, Austrian earl/fieldmarshal, dies at 79

1976 - Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)

1995 - John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer teacher organist, dies at 69

1997 - E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)

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