Brain Teaser 2/23/2015

Time, Words and a Trick



1. You have accidentally left out the plug and are attempting to fill the bath with both 2 taps full on. The hot tap takes 6 minutes to fill the bath, the cold tap takes 4 minutes, and the water empties through the plug hole in 12 minutes. In how many minutes will the bath be filled?



2. What word starting with BR, that with the addition of the letter E, becomes another word that sounds the same as the first?



3. Last Thursday, my aunt Martha forgot her driver's license at home. She was traveling down a one way street in the wrong direction and did not stop at an intersection to let pedestrians go. A policeman was watching her, but did not give her a ticket. Why?

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Today in History for 23rd February 2015

Historical Events

1792 - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)

1883 - American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Phila)

1900 - Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)

1915 - Nevada enforces convenient divorce law

1942 - Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif

1992 - 16th Winter Olympic games closes in Albertville, France

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Famous Birthdays

1865 - Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pittsburgh Pirates)

1904 - William L Shirer, historian (Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich)

1923 - Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet

1942 - Beau Boulter, (Rep-R-TX, 1985- )

1944 - Mike Maxfield, rocker (Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas)

1951 - Ed "Too Tall" Jones, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)

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Famous Deaths

1447 - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)

1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th US President (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80

1913 - Jimmy Sinclair, cricketer (3 centuries in 25 Test S Afr career), dies

1971 - King Lockwood, dies of stroke at 73

1985 - Alexander Scourby, actor (Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant), dies at 71

2004 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)

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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Feb 23, 2015)

Deeper Than the Sea



What can be deeper than the sea,

More intriguing than stars and space,

Simple as can be,

Duller than an empty place,

As innocent as a gentle word,

And guilty like a mean jailbird,

From whence comes most of the things we see,

Which otherwise just wouldn't be.

What can it be, what can it be?





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Brain Teaser 2/22/2015

I rule over everything

I lay mountains low

I dethrone all kings

and kingdoms overthrow

I am measured

yet have no substance

I exist but can't be touched

I am everywhere yet I am nothing

you live by my standard day by day

can you find me?

What am I?

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Brain Teaser 2/21/2015

The local recycling plant had a contract requiring anyone who obtained recycled bottles for storage from them, to bring them back to be recycled again. The plant could make one new bottle from every seven bottles returned. One week, on Monday, they got 343 bottles to recycle. Assuming that everybody brought back all the empties, how many could they eventually remake from the 343?

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This year, the U.S. government will allocate over 600 billion dollars to the Department…

This year, the U.S. government will allocate over 600 billion dollars to the Department of Defense. In contrast, NASA will receive just over 17 billion dollars in funding.

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David Bowie declined the royal honor of Commander of the British…

David Bowie declined the royal honor of Commander of the British Empire, and turned down a knighthood.

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