Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Mar 12, 2015)

The Ploughman



What is so incredible about the sentence below?



A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed, houghed, and hiccoughed.





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Brain Teaser 3/11/2015

A Grab Bag Of Teasers...



1. A 30 year old man married a 25 year old woman. She died at age 50 and her husband was so

devastated that he cried for years. Ten years after he stopped crying, he died. If he had lived

to be 80, how many years was he a widower?



2. Write down a mathematical expression, having a value of 24, which uses three equal digits,

none of them being 8.


3. Three boys have twenty walnuts between them. Billy has three more walnuts than Alan, but five

fewer than Charlie. How many walnuts do they each have?



4. You have 10 trees you need to make 5 rows of 4. How do you do it?

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Yoko Ono once brought a dead rat in a shoebox to a recording studio…

Yoko Ono once brought a dead rat in a shoebox to a recording studio, and insisted that the sound engineer record it. The engineer recorded two takes of the “dead rat solo.”

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There is a sponge under Antarctica that scientists believe to be over…

There is a sponge under Antarctica that scientists believe to be over 10,000 years old, making it the longest living organic creature known to man.

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A Russian company won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 for developing a method…

A Russian company won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 for developing a method to turn military explosives into nanodiamonds. These nanodiamonds can be used as light beacons for cancer treatment.

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There is a stuffed animal hospital that cleans and repairs beloved stuffed…

There is a stuffed animal hospital that cleans and repairs beloved stuffed animals and dolls. The toys are called patients, shipped in an ambulance box, and returned wearing a hospital bracelet with their name.

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At the age of 5 years and 11 months, Ayan Qureshi took and passed Microsoft…

At the age of 5 years and 11 months, Ayan Qureshi took and passed Microsoft’s IT Technician Exam, making him the youngest certified computer specialist in the world.

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Today in History for 11th March 2015

Historical Events

1900 - British Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury rejects peace overtures from the Boer leader Paul Kruger (on 5 March) as demanding too-favourable terms

1924 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games

1948 - WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting

1982 - Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion

1986 - 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

1996 - John Winston Howard becomes the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. His term in office is the second longest in Australian history, ending on December 3, 2007.

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Famous Birthdays

1873 - David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)

1907 - Eleni Gatzoyiannis, heroine (saved her kids)

1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)

1937 - John Ward, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1964-68)

1939 - Lorraine Hunt, former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada

1967 - Bill Houlder, Thunder Bay, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)

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Famous Deaths

222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor (218-22), murdered by the Praetorian Guard at 18

1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho

1907 - Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered

1947 - Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45

1977 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)

1996 - Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 67

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