Friday 3 April 2015

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Apr 04, 2015)

In Other Words...Music



Below are five band names and one of each of their songs. However, they have been rephrased and it is your job to figure them out.



1. Blue and yellow in a period after night sings "Avenue containing shattered nighttime fancies".



2. "Numerically" also, the 21st letter of the alphabet sings "A sensation of dizziness".



3. Illuminated sight organs sings "A chemical substance that can injure or kill".



4. Involuntary shutting and opening of the eye #91 doubled sings "Merry-go-round".



5. The thankful deceased sings "Carton of condensation".





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Brain Teaser 4/3/2015

"One Word Solutions"



1. What demands an answer, but asks no questions?



2. What is it the more you take, the more you leave behind?



3. What can be seen and fills a room but doesn't take up any space?



4. What is long and slim, works in light; has but one eye, and an awful bite?

Solution

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Kindle Fire HDX 8.9....





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Today in History for 3rd April 2015

Historical Events


1933 - Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0

1945 - Hengelo freed from Nazi control by Canadian army

1948 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill

1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open

1997 - Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

2006 - Steve Yzerman scores his final NHL goal (#692) against the Calgary Flames


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Famous Birthdays


1898 - George Jessel, toastmaster general/entertainer (Diary of Young Comic)

1913 - George Barati, composer

1917 - Tibor Andrasovan, composer

1925 - Tony Benn, British minister of technology (1968)

1930 - Lawton Chiles, (sen/gov-D-Florida, 1971-89/91- )

1937 - Simon Brown, British high court judge


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Famous Deaths


1882 - Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer, dies at 71

1949 - Basil Harwood, composer, dies at 89

1989 - Norman Woolard, actor (Guilty, Saul and David, Medeleine), dies at 79

1990 - Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69

2000 - Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (b. 1946)

2007 - Marion Eames, Welsh novelist (b. 1921)


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