Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Jan 07, 2016)

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Multi-Word

I am three words,

Two of them appear the same,

Two are pronounced the same.

One is the third person use of “capable” or “permit”.

One means to sleep, but only for a bit.

The last word means a group of deer,

Perhaps now you can tell me, what words are here?

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Jan 07, 2016)

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“High School Musical” Quotes
These are some of the best “High School Musical” quotes. Can you identify who said what?

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Stress : Type B Personality

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The opposite of a type A personality is type B. These people tend to be more relaxed and calmer than their type A counterparts. Type B people are easy-going, uncompetitive and more realistic about deadlines and goals. They know their limits and rarely push them. Type B people are often called socializers because they enjoy parties and being in groups. Type B people are very easy to get along with because they rarely get irritated or bothered.

As you might expect, type B people have a lower incidence of heart disease and other stress related illnesses.

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Chary

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char-y

adj :: Very cautious or wary.

“Shane was chary of the risks involved with the procedure.”

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Memory : Remembering Playing Cards

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The Phonetic Mnemonic System can be used to memorize playing cards. This can be a helpful advantage when playing a game of cards such as poker or blackjack because you’ll be able to remember all the cards that have been played. It can be difficult to remember the cards as-is but by assigning a keyword to each card, you can make them more memorable. Keywords can be assigned to playing cards in the following way:

The first letter of the keyword should match the first letter in the suit (Hearts=H, Spades=S, Clubs=C, Diamonds=D). Then, use the phonetic sound associated with the value of that card to form the word. For example, we know that in the Phonetic Mnemonic System, the ‘n’ sound is assigned to the number 2, so the 2 of hearts could be represented with the word ‘hen.’ Likewise, the 8 of clubs could be “calf” or “cave.” For 10, use the phonetic sound for 0 (10 of diamonds = dice). For the cards higher than 10, we use the double-digit value (J=11, Q=12, K=13). For example: King of Spades = Stem.

Now, if you want to remember that a player just played the 9 of clubs and the 4 of hearts, just visualize a ‘cop’ with really long ‘hair.’

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Tuesday, 5 January 2016

Historical Events for 5th January 2016


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1914 – Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day
1916 – Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro
1918 – British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace
1919 – National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers’ Party
1929 – Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
1930 – Mao Zedong writes “A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire”
1931 – 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
1959 – “Bozo the Clown” live children’s show premieres on TV
1987 – Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ
1996 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.

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Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Jan 05, 2016)


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One Pair Out of Ten

A very mean king went to a nearby village. He wanted some more slaves to serve him at his royal palace. He decided that if any family in the village had more than five children, he would take them. A cobbler and his wife had ten children. When the king came to take them, the cobbler and his wife begged and begged. Finally the king said, “I see that you have ten pairs of shoes in a box. If you can give each of your children a pair and still leave one pair out of ten in the box, you can keep your children. The cobbler and his wife began to smile at each other. How did they keep all of their children?

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