Friday, 29 May 2015

Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (May 30, 2015)

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Coward…

What does this rebus mean?

Lies

Fear

Lies

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (May 30, 2015)

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Colour Your World – Geography Edition
Many geographic locations, such as Green Bay, Wisconsin, contain colours as part of their name. How many of these places do you know?

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Quiescence

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Qui-es-cence

adj :: Being quiet, still, or at rest; inactive

“And it flashes out in your face still, until you draw that veil of dull quiescence over it.” –Eliot, George

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Salvador Dali made a painting for the prisoners at Rikers Island in NYC that…

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painting-Dali-Riker-Island-jail-croppedSalvador Dali made a painting for the prisoners at Rikers Island in NYC that hung in the prisoner dining room for 15 years, when it was moved to the prison lobby for ‘safekeeping’. In 2003, three prison guards and a warden stole the painting.

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While playing Queen Elizabeth in a stage play, Helen Mirren stayed…

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While playing Queen Elizabeth in a stage play, Helen Mirren stayed in character after the show to fulfill a 10 year old boy’s dying wish to meet the Queen. They had tea together, and he thought he was with Her Majesty the entire time.

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Belgium is building a beer pipeline that will move…

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Belgium is building a beer pipeline that will move 1,500 gallons of beer per hour.

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Ten days before Freddie Mercury died, Jim Beach, Queen’s manager…

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Freddie-Mercury-croppedTen days before Freddie Mercury died, Jim Beach, Queen’s manager, met with him to discuss what could be done with his legacy. Freddie said, “You can do whatever you like with my image, my music, remix it, re-release it, whatever… just never make me boring.”

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On a trip to China, Prince Philip joked to students that “If you stay here much…

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On a trip to China, Prince Philip joked to students that “If you stay here much longer, you’ll go slit-eyed.” After initial concerns of offense, Chinese officials responded that they also warned their students of going “round-eyed” when studying abroad.”

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The only deaths to have occurred in space thus far were in 1971…

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Soyuz-11-croppedThe only deaths to have occurred in space thus far were in 1971, when 3 Soviet cosmonauts fell victim to a catastrophic decompression of their return module. The module executed a perfect automated landing, without a living person on-board.

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Get inside me…let the adventure begin.

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Found at Lotte World in Seoul, Korea.

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Historical Events for 29th May 2015

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1592 – Battle of Sacheon: Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repels a Japanese fleet – first use of Korean Turtle ship
1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1967 – Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II
1986 – 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
1988 – Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq dismisses government and disbands parliament
1991 – “Les Miserables” opens at Aotea Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand
1994 – “Picnic” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2012 – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy
2012 – Facebook’s problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical glitches

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