Thursday 31 December 2015

Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Jan 01, 2016)


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Radio Ga Ga

What different types of Radio are represented below?

(Don’t take it too seriously)

1) \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Radio

2) ^^^^^^^^^^ Radio

3) BAAAAAAAND Radio

4) 8 Fingers 2 thumbs Radio

5) BlackBeard Radio

6) 90% Fat free Radio

7) Sister to Sister Radio

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Jan 01, 2016)


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TV Cops & Crime Shows 4
Here are more television shows which stamp out lawlessness for your trivial pleasure. “This tape will self-destruct in five seconds.”

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Repose


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re-pose

noun :: To take a rest.

“It was in the middle of the guard’s repose that the crook sneaked past him.”

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Creativity : Word Skipping II


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Pick a poem or song from our list and recite it out loud. Now, recite it again but skip every other word. Then skip every third word, and so on, until you can’t do it any more. This exercise helps with your concentration and mental endurance.

1. Row row row your boat

2. The itsy bitsy spider

3. Jack and Jill went up the hill

An example of skipping by two: Jack Jill up hill fetch pail…

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Memory : Memorizing Pi


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Now that we have learned the Phonetic Mnemonic System, we can use it to memorize long numbers. We have already learned how to memorize the first few digits of pi. Here we will learn how to memorize 150 digits by using a little poem created by A. Loisette over a hundred years ago.

Mother Day will buy any shawl.

3.14 1 5 9 2 65

My love, pick up my new muff.

3 58 97 9 3 2 38

A Russian jeer may move a woman.

462 64 3 38 32

Cables enough for Utopia.

7950 28 84 19

Get a cheap ham pie by my cooley.

71 69 3 9 9 3 75

The slave knows a bigger ape.

1 058 20 974 9

I rarely hop on my sick foot.

445 9 2 3 07 81

Cheer a sage in a fashion safe.

64 06 2 862 08

A baby fish now views my wharf.

99 86 2 80 3 48

Annually Mary Ann did kiss a jay.

25 34 2 11 70 6

A cabby found a rough savage.

79 821 48 086

A low dumb knave knew a message showy.

5 13 28 2 306 6

Argus up my fire rushes.

470 9 3 84 460

A bee will lose life in enmity.

9 5 50 58 2 231

A canal may well appear swift.

725 3 5 94 081

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Historical Events for 31st December 2015


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1695 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
1744 – English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth’s nutation motion (wobble)
1890 – Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
1921 – 14th Australasian Championships: Rhys Gemmell beats Alf Hedeman (7-5, 6-1, 6-4)
1946 – French troops leave Lebanon
1967 – Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game
1970 – Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
1994 – This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.
1995 – Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria
1997 – Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of pitcher Livan, defects from Cuba

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