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Challenge 2 -Alpha
Team
TEASERS "The rules are pretty simple... 1. At least half your team must participate... that's 2 for the Omegas, and 2.5 for the Alphas (3!). 2. Keep them numbered, so I can find them. I had originally for a lot fewer, but considering how fast you did the last one, I figured this one needed to be bigger. 3. The first team to get them all correct wins. Barring that, the team to get the most right by 11:59pm CST (the time clocked here) Sunday night 9-24-2000 wins immunity. 4. I don't mind you getting help, but don't post for help. 5. The answers are pretty specific, but if another one works, AND you can prove it, I'll allow it. 6. You have all day Monday to argue your answers, but once I post at 11:59pm 9-25-2000 the winner, it would be unfair to them to change it. I'm not perfect, but I'll try to be. The voting will be Tuesday, for 24 hours. 7. Every so often, I'll go thru and post which ones you have correct and which ones you do not. 8. What have I forgotten? ==================================== Tease #1 In the land of Liars and Truthtellers there were two families a little different from the general population. The Smith's, who told the truth only in the morning and lie in the afternoon, and the Jones' who speak the truth only in the afternoon and lie in the morning. You meet one person from each of these families on the street but you are not sure which is which. They make the following statements: A: It is afternoon B: My last name is Jones. Who is who, and is it morning or afternoon? Tease 2 What does man love more than life Fear more than death or mortal strife What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire, What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves And all men carry to their graves? Tease 3 We are little creatures; all of us have different features. One of us in glass is set; one of us you'll find in jet. Another you may see in tin, and the fourth is boxed within. If the fifth you should pursue, it can never fly from you. What are we? TEASE 4: "Now you listen to me," yelled Art to buck, the owner of the football club, "I've been producing television sports for 20 yrs. and rule #1 is this; if you want to win you have to control the ball. In order to control the ball you have to have an offensive star who can put the points on the board. Sign a major quarterback & I'll give you the deal. Otherwise, forget it." As Buck got up to leave, Art yelled again, "Now remember, I don't care if you're talking basketball, soccer or polo, the tease that's on offense has control of the ball!" "Well that's where you're wrong," replied Buck. What situation was Buck referring to? TEASE 5: Which of these numbers is the odd-one-out? 43 26 50 37 17 82 Tease 6: Replace the asterisks by the correct mathematical signs to make the expression equal to 99. 16*12*2*3= 99 Tease 7 There is a cage at the zoo that contained both peacocks and wild pigs. If there is a total of 30 eyes and 44 feet, how many of each are in the cage? TEASE: 8 What is the one thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth? Tease 9 Can you name the ten body parts that are only 3 letters long. None of them are slang or sleeze. Five are below the neck and five are above. Tease 10 When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What is the day after this day? Tease 11 If nine thousand, nine hundred nine dollars is written as $9,909, how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred twelve dollars be written. Tease 12 My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events of today. What am I? Tease 13 I'm as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I'll approach like a breeeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I have many, of names I have one. I'm as slow as a snail, but from me you can't run. Tease 14 I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken, What am I? Tease 15 Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to z=26. Can you think of a familiar 7 letter word whose letter values total only 21? HINT: It's edible. Tease 16 If you look, you can't see me. If you see me, you cannot see anything else. I can make you walk if you can't. Sometimes I speak the truth. And sometimes I lie. If I lie, I am nearer the truth. What Am I? Tease 17 Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot, All is cool where it is not. What is it? Tease 18 I have a mouth but do not speak, I have a bed but do not sleep. I run but have no feet. What am I? Tease 19 What demands an answer, but asks no question? Tease 20 We are all around, yet to us you are half blind. Sunlight makes us invisible, and difficult to find. What are we? Tease 21 Some try to hide, Some try to cheat, But time will show, We always will meet. Try as you might, To guess my name, I promise you'll know, When you I do claim. Who am I? Tease 22 Some will use me, while others will not, Some have remembered, while others have forgot. For profit or gain, I'm used expertly, I can't be picked off the ground Or tossed into the sea. Only gained from patience and time, Can you unravel my rhyme? Tease 23 Always old, sometimes new, Never sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, sometimes full, Never pushes, always pulls. What am I? Tease 24 What is open when it is closed, and closed when it is open? Tease 25 What is long and slim, works in light; has but one eye, and an awful bite? Tease 26: My host thinks I'm an irritation, a bother, a pain. But he can't evict me, so here I will remain. Then one day I'm taken and ranked among my peers. Can you guess just what I am? Then you might call me dear. Tease 27 Born Motherless and Fatherless, Into this world without a sin Made a loud roar as I entered And never spoke again. What am I? Tease 28 I say everything I hear to others around. I'm not an animal, nor part of the human race. I will, immediately, repeat after you; But only if my tail is in place. What am I? Tease 29 I have keys that open no locks, I have space, but there is no room, You can enter, but you can't go in. What am I? Tease 30 "Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it, wants it not. Can you tell me what I speak of?" Tease 31 With thieves I consort, With vilest, in short, I'm quite at my ease in depravity: Yet all divines use me, And savants can't lose me, For I am the center of gravity. Who or what am I? Tease 32 I am a word of ten letters. My 1, 2, 8 is rainy. My 1, 5, 6, 7 is part of a bird's body. My 8, 9, 10 is a weight. My 1, 2, 3, 4 is a spring. My 7, 5, 4, 8, is a golden surface. My 10, 9, 8, 2 is a short letter. My whole is a celebrated warrior. Who am I? Tease 33 This is an unusual day, and so is this paragraph. How quickly can you find what is so uncommon about it? It looks so ordinary that you may think nothing is odd about it until you match it with most paragraphs this long. If you put your mind to it, and study it, you will find out. Do it without any coaching. Go to work and try your skill at figuring it out. Good Luck! Tease 34 Complete the following series: 32, 30, 34, 34, 36, 36, 38, 39, 39, 41, ??, ?? Tease 35 A man went into a bank to cash a check. In handing over the money, the cashier, by mistake, gave him dollars for cents and cents for dollars. He pocketed the money without examining it, and spent a nickel on his way home. He then found that he possessed exactly twice the amount of the check. He had no money in his pocket before going to the bank. What was the exact amount of that check? Tease 36 I know what my job is, The point has been made. You say I have a big head, And you're right, I'm afraid Put me in my place, And then leave me alone, What I need most, I someone to drive me home. What am I? Tease 37 With pointed fangs it sits in wait, With piercing force its doles out fate, Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might, Eternally joining in a single bite. What am I? Tease 38 I have a hundred legs, But cannot stand. I have a long neck, But no head. I cannot see, and I'm neat and tidy, As can be. What am I? Tease 39 I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while you are away. I take you by night, by day take you back, none suffer to have me, but do from my lack. What am I? Tease 40 What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot? Tease 41 These words all belong to the same logical family because they have something in common: ~footloose ~committed ~successful ~address ~millennuim Which of the following words belong to the same family? ~silly ~ancestor ~millstone ~heedless Tease 42 Five athletes were returning from a cross-country race. Athlete C placed third, and athlete E placed second. From the following information, can you tell how athletes A, B, and D placed in the race? Athlete A was not last. Athlete A came in after E. Athlete D was not first. Tease 43 There is an animal hiding in each sentence below. Can you find the animals? 1. We can go at six o'clock. 2. It's nice to do good deeds. 3. Take soap and a towel with you! 4. Most rich people wear fancy clothes 5. You can keep the watch or sell it. 6. Use a ladder. 7. It will be a rainy day. 8. I came late. 9. Tell me if I should start now. 10. Will a map help you? Tease 44 Marta distributed 100 marbles among 5 bags. Bag #1 and Bag #2 together contain 52 marbles. Bag #2 and Bag #3 together contain 43 marbles. Bag #3 and Bag #4 together contain 34 marbles. Bag #4 and Bag #5 together contain 30 marbles. How many marbles are in each bag? Tease 45 A man is walking down a road with a basket of eggs. As he is walking he meets someone who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. He walks a little further and meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. After proceeding further he meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one half an egg. At this point he has sold all of his eggs, and he never broke an egg. How many eggs did the man have to start with? Tease 46 There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors? Tease 47 A man is in jail and is planning his escape. His cell, which is on the third floor, is 30 meters above ground level. Shady managed to remove one of the bars from the window, enabling him to squeeze through. He has a rope, but it is only 15 meters in length and a fall of 15 meters would be too dangerous. Aside from the bars on his cell window, there is nothing else, above or below, when he could fasten the rope. However, using just the rope the man was able to escape safely. How? Tease 48 There's a light bulb upstairs and three light switches downstairs, one of which controls the bulb upstairs. How can you find the switch that controls the bulb upstairs by only making one trip upstairs? Tease 49 What is the value of one-half of two-thirds of three-quarters of four-fifths of five-sixths of six-sevenths of seven-eights of eight-ninths of nine tenths of one thousand? Tease 50 At a card game one of the players poses a question. "In an ordinary deck of playing cards, two of the jacks have two eyes and two of the Jacks have one yes. How many eyes are on the four Jack cards?" ================ Good Luck! Edited by: Yeontoo at: 9/23/00 1:41:23 am |
DieselMickeyDolenz
 Novice Slider Posts: 75 (9/22/00 11:01:03 pm)  |
Re: Challenge 2 -Alpha
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Well, I've got a few, anyway. #1 It is afternoon. A is a Jones (tells truth, says it's afternoon). B is a Smith (lies, says is a Jones). #2 Nothing #7 7 pigs -> 28 feet, 14 eyes 8 peacocks -> 16 feet, 16 eyes #9 arm leg toe hip rib eye ear lip jaw lid ??? as in eye lid? Thoughts on #10), see if this sounds right. When the day after today is yesterday == 3 days from now When the day before today was tomorrow == 3 days ago So 3 days from now, we'll be as far from Wednesday as we were 3 days ago. Therefore, today is Wednesday, and the day after today is Thurday? #11) $13,212 I won't have much online time this weekend, but I'll try to work on them offline. I'll post when I can. Diesel at: 9/22/00 10:31:08
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| Sabre
Edge Administrator Posts: 156 (9/23/00 3:22:22 am)  |
Re: Challenge 2 -Alpha
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1. A: Jones, B: Smith, Afternoon 2. "Nothing" 6. 16 X 12 / 2 + 3 = 99 7. 8 peacocks, 7 pigs 8. "Man" 9. DMD got most of these, I'm throwing in "lob" for a safety to "lid" 10. You start on Friday, when the day after tomorrow is yesterday (Monday), today (Monday) will be as far from Wednesday as today (Friday) was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow (Wednesday). What is the day after this day? THURSDAY! 11. $13,212 18. River 20. Stars I guess I'm backing DMD here... I'll work on more tomorrow. Edited by: Sabre Edge at: 9/23/00 2:30:22 am |
| Yeontoo Moderator Posts: 613 (9/23/00 3:30:50 am) |
Tally
1. yes 2. yes 3. . 4. . 5. . 6. yes 7. yes 8. no 9. not completely correct 10. yes 11. yes 12. . 13. . 14. . 15. . 16. . 17. . 18. yes 19. . 20. . 21. . 22. . 23. . 24. . 25. . 26. . 27. . 28. . 29. . 30. . 31. . 32. . 33. . 34. . 35. . 36. . 37. . 38. . 39. . 40. . 41. . 42. . 43. . 44. . 45. . 46. . 47. . 48. . 49. . 50. . ============= This is as of here  There's been two typos so far, so if you got a question or wonder if I've made another typo, speak up. ~Mz Yeontoo Human Resources R Us |
| Sabre
Edge Administrator Posts: 157 (9/23/00 3:39:12 am) |
Re: Tally
Quick addition: #9 Gum... that should work  #20 Stars off to bed... |
Slider8
 Novice Slider Posts: 55 (9/23/00 12:07:22 pm)  |
Re: Tally
39: Sleep [:::]o]}= = = =(((o))) -Slider8 |
| Sabre
Edge Administrator Posts: 158 (9/23/00 3:30:02 pm) |
Re: Challenge 2 -Alpha
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14. Word 17. Sunshine, Sunbeams 28. Echo 32. Wellington Edited by: Sabre Edge at: 9/23/00 4:16:03 pm |
| Sabre
Edge Administrator Posts: 159 (9/23/00 3:48:54 pm) |
Re: Challenge 2 -Alpha
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25. Needle 38. Broom 41. Heedless |
| Sabre
Edge Administrator Posts: 160 (9/23/00 4:03:05 pm) |
Re: Challenge 2 -Alpha
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42. Athlete A was in 4th Athlete B was in 1st Athlete D was in 5th (last) 43. 1. goat 2. dog 3. panda 4. ostrich 5. horse 6. seal 7. bear 8. camel 9. fish 10. llama 44. Bag 1 = 27 Bag 2 = 25 Bag 3 = 18 Bag 4 = 16 Bag 5 = 14 |
| Sabre
Edge Administrator Posts: 161 (9/23/00 4:31:04 pm) |
Re: Challenge 2 -Alpha
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46. The scissors punctured the water bed and he slowly drowned in the leaking water as it collected in the bottom and he sank into it. 49. 111.11... 50. 12 eyes |
| Sabre
Edge Administrator Posts: 162 (9/23/00 4:48:53 pm) |
Re: Challenge 2 -Alpha
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5. 50 is the only number that doesn't share either of its digits (5 & 0) with any other number in the group. 37. Fork |
| Yeontoo Moderator Posts: 615 (9/23/00 5:36:14 pm) |
Tally
1. yes 2. yes 3. . 4. . 5. yes 6. yes 7. yes 8. no 9. yes 10. yes 11. yes 12. . 13. . 14. no 15. . 16. . 17. yes 18. yes 19. . 20. yes 21. . 22. . 23. . 24. . 25. yes 26. . 27. . 28. no 29. . 30. . 31. . 32. yes 33. . 34. . 35. . 36. . 37. . 38. yes 39. yes 40. . 41. yes 42. yes 43. yes 44. yes 45. . 46. yes 47. . 48. . 49. no 50. yes ============= This is as of here. Dont edit posts above this point. ~Mz Yeontoo Human Resources R Us Edited by: Yeontoo at: 9/23/00 5:32:00 pm |
| Sabre
Edge Administrator Posts: 164 (9/23/00 6:59:18 pm) |
Re: Challenge 2 -Alpha
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3. vowels 8. Clouds 12. current 19. A really mad parent  21. Death 28. microphone 40. Houses are bought by the (one) yard and worn (or trampled) by the foot. Also Carpeting. Y, check my #37, Fork, up above... It must be very tough keeping up on all this, keep up the good work. Edited by: Sabre Edge at: 9/23/00 6:02:11 pm |
| DieselMickeyDolenz
Novice Slider Posts: 76 (9/23/00 7:41:58 pm) |
Re: Challenge 2 -Alpha
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Trying to add a few more: 3) Vowels A, E, I, O, and U (just in case we needed to be more specific)  'and'13) a shadow 19) a telephone 22) Experience 24) a drawbridge 27) Thunder 29) A keyboard 30) love (a guess) 33) Not a single 'e' appears in the entire paragraph. 35) $31.63 36) A nail 45) 7 eggs 47) Shady and the man in the 3rd story cell are two different people. Shady is in the 2nd story cell directly below the man in the 3rd story cell. (OK, it's reaching, I know) 4 Turn on switch #1, turn switches #2 and
#3 off. Wait a long time. Turn off switch #1 and turn on #2. Immediatly
go upstairs. If the bulb is off and warm, switch #1 controls it. If the
bulb is off and cold, switch #3 controls it. If the bulb is on, switch
#2 controls it. (Requires a known-good bulb)49) 100 Edited by: DieselMickeyDolenz at: 9/23/00 11:19:03
pm |
| Yeontoo Moderator Posts: 618 (9/24/00 12:50:30 am) |
TALLY
1. yes 2. yes 3. yes 4. . 5. yes 6. yes 7. yes 8. yes 9. yes 10. yes 11. yes 12. yes 13. yes 14. no 15. . 16. . 17. yes 18. yes 19. yes 20. yes 21. yes 22. yes 23. . 24. yes 25. yes 26. . 27. yes 28. yes 29. yes 30. no 31. . 32. yes 33. yes 34. . 35. yes 36. yes 37. no 38. yes 39. yes 40. yes 41. yes 42. yes 43. yes 44. yes 45. yes 46. yes 47. no 48. yes 49. yes 50. yes ============= This is as of here. Dont edit posts above this point. ~Mz Yeontoo Human Resources R Us Edited by: Yeontoo at: 9/24/00 12:10:57 am |
| DieselMickeyDolenz
Novice Slider Posts: 77 (9/24/00 1:06:23 am) |
Re: TALLY
4) In baseball, the defense controls the ball. 15) cabbage 16) a dream 21) death (repost from SE) 23) the moon 26) a pearl 30) counterfeit money 34) 41, 43 (the numbers are the number of days in the month plus the number of the month iteself) Edited by: DieselMickeyDolenz at: 9/24/00 12:37:46
am |
| Sabre
Edge Administrator Posts: 165 (9/24/00 1:44:08 am) |
Re: Challenge 2 -Alpha
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37. stapler |
| WldKlly
Junior Slider Posts: 24 (9/24/00 3:36:58 am) |
Ok,.. I missed out
at the beginning but here i am!
<<I didn't think the challenge would be out so soon...sorry!>> 14) a story 31) the letter V 47) (OK.. this is reaching) The man ties the rope to the bar and climbs to the second story where he hangs on the bars there while Shady unties the rope that he then ties to the bars he is hanging on and climbs down. (Run-on sentence much?) <<is that all we need?>> -Klly |
| DieselMickeyDolenz
Novice Slider Posts: 78 (9/24/00 7:04:24 am) |
Re: Ok,.. I missed
out at the beginning but here i am!
Glad you could make it, Klly. Yes, that's all we need until Y updates our tally. Diesel |
| DieselMickeyDolenz
Novice Slider Posts: 79 (9/24/00 1:41:11 pm) |
Re: Ok,.. I missed
out at the beginning but here i am!
I think 47 is the only place we're weak. Here's a possibility. Notice that the question doesn't say he used the rope to lower himself to the ground, only that he used it to escape. Perhaps he trailed the rope out the window and hid under the bed. A guard sees that the prisioner is missing, there is a missing bar from the window, and there is a rope tied to the bars. The guard opens the cell door and goes to the window. The prisioner comes out from under the bed and hits the guard on the head with the bar. Steals the guards clothes, and simply walks out of the jail. Or maybe not
Diesel |
| Slider8
Novice Slider Posts: 56 (9/24/00 3:07:21 pm) |
Re: Ok,.. I missed
out at the beginning but here i am!
I'm goin with Klly's theory. It seems the only logical thing that will work. The question says that he used only the rope to escape. If he used a bar to hit the guard on the head, then that would not only be using the rope. [:::]o]}= = = =(((o))) -Slider8 |
| Yeontoo Moderator Posts: 620 (9/24/00 5:20:51 pm) |
Tally
1. yes 2. yes 3. yes 4. yes 5. yes 6. yes 7. yes 8. yes 9. yes 10. yes 11. yes 12. yes 13. yes 14. no 15. yes 16. yes 17. yes 18. yes 19. yes 20. yes 21. yes 22. yes 23. yes 24. yes 25. yes 26. yes 27. yes 28. yes 29. yes 30. yes 31. yes 32. yes 33. yes 34. yes 35. yes 36. yes 37. yes 38. yes 39. yes 40. yes 41. yes 42. yes 43. yes 44. yes 45. yes 46. yes 47. no 48. yes 49. yes 50. yes ============= This is as of here. Dont edit posts above this point. ~Mz Yeontoo Human Resources R Us ps. Numbers 14 and 47 are all that's left Alphas. Edited by: Yeontoo at: 9/24/00 4:24:24 pm |
| DieselMickeyDolenz
Novice Slider Posts: 80 (9/24/00 5:38:09 pm) |
Re: Tally
Hmmm. 14) a heart? (although a story does fit the description just as well) |
| Yeontoo Moderator Posts: 623 (9/25/00 12:25:56 am) |
Tally
1. yes 2. yes 3. yes 4. yes 5. yes 6. yes 7. yes 8. yes 9. yes 10. yes 11. yes 12. yes 13. yes 14. no 15. yes 16. yes 17. yes 18. yes 19. yes 20. yes 21. yes 22. yes 23. yes 24. yes 25. yes 26. yes 27. yes 28. yes 29. yes 30. yes 31. yes 32. yes 33. yes 34. yes 35. yes 36. yes 37. yes 38. yes 39. yes 40. yes 41. yes 42. yes 43. yes 44. yes 45. yes 46. yes 47. no 48. yes 49. yes 50. yes ============= This is as of here. Dont edit posts above this point. ~Mz Yeontoo Human Resources R Us ps. Numbers 14 and 47 are all that's left Alphas. repost, I do the tally's at the same time |
| Yeontoo Moderator Posts: 625 (9/25/00 1:11:57 am) |
Final
Alpha's got 48 out of 50 correct, still missing #'s 14 and 47. here are the correct answers Tease #1 In the land of Liars and Truthtellers there were two families a little different from the general population. The Smith's, who told the truth only in the morning and lie in the afternoon, and the Jones' who speak the truth only in the afternoon and lie in the morning. You meet one person from each of these families on the street but you are not sure which is which. They make the following statements: A: It is afternoon B: My last name is Jones. Who is who, and is it morning or afternoon? SOLUTION TO TEASE: A is a Jones, B is a Smith and it is afternoon. If statement A were false, it would be morning and it would have to be a Jones speaking but that would also make statement B false and both statements could not be false because one lies in the afternoon and one tells the truth. Tease 2 What does man love more than life Fear more than death or mortal strife What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire, What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves And all men carry to their graves? Answer: Nothing Tease 3 We are little creatures; all of us have different features. One of us in glass is set; one of us you'll find in jet. Another you may see in tin, and the fourth is boxed within. If the fifth you should pursue, it can never fly from you. What are we? The answer was the vowels of the alphabet. TEASE 4: "Now you listen to me," yelled Art to buck, the owner of the football club, "I've been producing television sports for 20 yrs. and rule #1 is this; if you want to win you have to control the ball. In order to control the ball you have to have an offensive star who can put the points on the board. Sign a major quarterback & I'll give you the deal. Otherwise, forget it." As Buck got up to leave, Art yelled again, "Now remember, I don't care if you're talking basketball, soccer or polo, the tease that's on offense has control of the ball!" "Well that's where you're wrong," replied Buck. What situation was Buck referring to? SOLUTION: Baseball. In baseball it's the defense that controls the ball. TEASE 5: Which of these numbers is the odd-one-out? 43 26 50 37 17 82 Solution: 43, the others are 1 greater than a square root Tease 6: Replace the asterisks by the correct mathematical signs to make the expression equal to 99. 16 * 12 * 2 * 3 = 99 SOLUTION TO TODAY'S TEASE: 16 x 12 ÷ 2 + 3 = 99 Tease 7 There is a cage at the zoo that contained both peacocks and wild pigs. If there is a total of 30 eyes and 44 feet, how many of each are in the cage? SOLUTION There are seven pigs and eight peacocks. TEASE: 8 What is the one thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth? Solution: The word "and" Tease 9 Can you name the ten body parts that are only 3 letters long. None of them are slang or sleeze. Five are below the neck and five are above. SOLUTION TO TODAY'S TEASE: 1. Arm 2. Leg 3. Rib 4. Toe 5. Hip 6. Eye 7. Ear 8. Jaw 9. Lip 10.Gum Tease 10 When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. What is the day after this day? Solution: The answer is the day after today is Thursday, and today is Wednesday. Wednesday is as far from itself when the day before yesterday was tomorrow. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tease 11 TEASE: If nine thousand, nine hundred nine dollars is written as $9,909, how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred twelve dollars be written. Solution: $13,212 Tease 12 My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events of today. What am I? SOLUTION: Current Tease 13 I'm as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I'll approach like a breeeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I have many, of names I have one. I'm as slow as a snail, but from me you can't run. What am I? SOLUTION: Shadow Tease 14 I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken, What am I? SOLUTION : The News Tease 15 Assign every letter of the alphabet its numerical value: A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on, up to z=26. Can you think of a familiar 7 letter word whose letter values total only 21? HINT: It's edible. SOLUTION: Cabbage Tease 16 If you look, you can't see me. If you see me, you cannot see anything else. I can make you walk if you can't. Sometimes I speak the truth. And sometimes I lie. If I lie, I am nearer the truth. What Am I? SOLUTION: A Dream. Tease 17 Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot, All is cool where it is not. What is it? SOLUTION: SUNSHINE Tease 18 I have a mouth but do not speak, I have a bed that do not sleep. I run but have no feet. What am I? SOLUTION: RIVER Tease 19 What demands an answer, but asks no question? SOLUTION: A Telephone. Tease 20 We are all around, yet to us you are half blind. Sunlight makes us invisible, and difficult to find. What are we? SOLUTION: The Stars. Tease 21 Some try to hide, Some try to cheat, But time will show, We always will meet. Try as you might, To guess my name, I promise you'll know, When you I do claim. Who am I? SOLUTION: Death. Tease 22 Some will use me, while others will not, Some have remembered, while others have forgot. For profit or gain, I'm used expertly, I can't be picked off the ground Or tossed into the sea. Only gained from patience and time, Can you unravel my rhyme? SOLUTION: Knowledge. Tease 23 Always old, sometimes new, Never sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, sometimes full, Never pushes, always pulls. What am I? SOLUTION: The Moon. Tease 24 What is open when it is closed, and closed when it is open? SOLUTION: A Drawbridge. Tease 25 What is long and slim, works in light; has but one eye, and an awful bite? SOLUTION: A Needle. Tease 26: My host thinks I'm an irritation, a bother, a pain. But he can't evict me, so here I will remain. Then one day I'm taken and ranked among my peers. Can you guess just what I am? Then you might call me dear. SOLUTION: A Pearl. Tease 27 Born Motherless and Fatherless, Into this world without a sin Made a loud roar as I entered And never spoke again. What am I? SOLUTION: Thunder Tease 28 I say everything I hear to others around. I'm not an animal, nor part of the human race. I will, immediately, repeat after you; But only if my tail is in place. What am I? SOLUTION: A Microphone Tease 29 I have keys that open no locks, I have space, but there is no room, You can enter, but you can't go in. What am I? SOLUTION: A computer keyboard, or typewriter. Tease 30 "Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it, wants it not. Can you tell me what I speak of?" SOLUTION: Counterfeit Money. Tease 31 With thieves I consort, With vilest, in short, I'm quite at my ease in depravity: Yet all divines use me, And savants can't lose me, For I am the center of gravity. Who or what am I? SOLUTION: The letter V. Tease 32 I am a word of ten letters. My 1, 2, 8 is rainy. My 1, 5, 6, 7 is part of a bird's body. My 8, 9, 10 is a weight. My 1, 2, 3, 4 is a spring. My 7, 5, 4, 8, is a golden surface. My 10, 9, 8, 2 is a short letter. My whole is a celebrated warrior. Who am I? SOLUTION: Wellington. Tease 33 TEASE: This is an unusual day, and so is this paragraph. How quickly can you find what is so uncommon about it? It looks so ordinary that you may think nothing is odd about it until you match it with most paragraphs this long. If you put your mind to it, and study it, you will find out. Do it without any coaching. Go to work and try your skill at figuring it out. Good Luck! SOLUTION: The most common letter in the English language, E, does not appear at all in the paragraph. Tease 34 Complete the following series: 32, 30, 34, 34, 36, 36, 38, 39, 39, 41, ??, ?? SOLUTION: 32, 30, 34, 34, 36, 36, 38, 39, 39, 41, 41, 43 The numbers are made up of the number days in the month plus the number of the month itself January 31+1 = 32 February 28+2 = 30 March 31+3 = 34 and so on.... Tease 35 A man went into a bank to cash a check. In handing over the money, the cashier, by mistake, gave him dollars for cents and cents for dollars. He pocketed the money without examining it, and spent a nickel on his way home. He then found that he possessed exactly twice the amount of the check. He had no money in his pocket before going to the bank. What was the exact amount of that check? SOLUTION: The amount must have been $31.63. He received $63.31. After he had spent a nickel, there would remain the sum of $63.26 which is twice the amount of the check. Tease 36 I know what my job is, The point has been made. You say I have a big head, And you're right, I'm afraid Put me in my place, And then leave me alone, What I need most, I someone to drive me home. What am I? SOLUTION: A Nail Tease 37 With pointed fangs it sits in wait, With piercing force its doles out fate, Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might, Eternally joining in a single bite. What am I? SOLUTION: A Stapler Tease 38 I have a hundred legs, But cannot stand. I have a long neck, But no head. I cannot see, and I'm neat and tidy, As can be. What am I? SOLUTION: A Broom. Tease 39 I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while you are away. I take you by night, by day take you back, none suffer to have me, but do from my lack. What am I? SOLUTION: Sleep. Tease 40 What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot? SOLUTION: Carpet Tease 41 These words all belong to the same logical family because they have something in common: ~footloose ~committed ~successful ~address ~millennuim Which of the following words belong to the same family? ~silly ~ancestor ~millstone ~heedless Solution: heedless. The family is group will two double consonants Tease 42 Five athletes were returning from a cross-country race. Athlete C placed third, and athlete E placed second. From the following information, can you tell how athletes A, B, and D placed in the race? Athlete A was not last. Athlete A came in after E. Athlete D was not first. Solution: Since C was 3rd and E was 2nd, A could only be 1st or 4th. Since A was behind E, A could not be first; therefore A must be 4th. D could not be 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, so D must be 5th. If D is 5th, A 4th, C 3rd, and E 2nd, then B must be 1st. Tease 43 There is an animal hiding in each sentence below. Can you find the animals? 1. We can go at six o'clock. 2. It's nice to do good deeds. 3. Take soap and a towel with you! 4. Most rich people wear fancy clothes 5. You can keep the watch or sell it. 6. Use a ladder. 7. It will be a rainy day. 8. I came late. 9. Tell me if I should start now. 10. Will a map help you? Solutions 1. goat 2. dog 3. panda 4. ostrich 5. horse 6. seal 7. bear 8. camel 9. fish 10. llama Tease 44 Marta distributed 100 marbles among 5 bags. Bag #1 and Bag #2 together contain 52 marbles. Bag #2 and Bag #3 together contain 43 marbles. Bag #3 and Bag #4 together contain 34 marbles. Bag #4 and Bag #5 together contain 30 marbles. How many marbles are in each bag? Solution: Bags #1, #2, #4, and #5 together contain 82 marbles. Therefore, Bag #3 must contain 18 marbles. Bag #1 has 27 marbles Bag #2 has 25 marbles Bag #3 has 18 marbles Bag #4 has 16 marbles Bag #5 has 14 marbles Tease 45 A man is walking down a road with a basket of eggs. As he is walking he meets someone who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. He walks a little further and meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. After proceeding further he meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one half an egg. At this point he has sold all of his eggs, and he never broke an egg. How many eggs did the man have to start with? SOLUTION: 7 eggs. The first person bought one half of his eggs plus one half an egg, or 3 1/2 plus 1/2 or 4 eggs. This left him 3 eggs. The second person bought one-half of his eggs plus one half an egg, or 1 1/2 eggs plus 1/2 egg or 2 eggs, leaving the man 1 egg. The last person bought one-half of his eggs plus one-half an egg, or 1/2 plus 1/2 or 1 egg, leaving no eggs. Tease 46 There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors? Solution: Killer cut a hole in the water that the victim was sleeping on, and drown the victim, leaving no cuts or bruises. Tease 47 A man is in jail and is planning his escape. His cell, which is on the third floor, is 30 meters above ground level. Shady managed to remove one of the bars from the window, enabling him to squeeze through. He has a rope, but it is only 15 meters in length and a fall of 15 meters would be too dangerous. Aside from the bars on his cell window, there is nothing else, above or below, when he could fasten the rope. However, using just the rope the man was able to escape safely. How? Solution: The man untwisted the strands of the rope which left him with two ropes, half the original rope's thickness, but twice the length. Tease 48 There's a light bulb upstairs and three light switches downstairs, one of which controls the bulb upstairs. How can you find the switch that controls the bulb upstairs by only making one trip upstairs? SOLUTION Turn one switch on for five minutes. Then turn that one off and turn the second one on and go upstairs. If the light is off you know it isn't the second switch. Then FEEL the bulb to see if it is warm. If it is warm then it was the first switch that was left on for five minutes. If the bulb is neither warm or illuminated then you know that the third switch, which was never turned on, is the one that operates the bulb upstairs. Tease 49 What is the value of one-half of two-thirds of three-quarters of four-fifths of five-sixths of six-sevenths of seven-eights of eight-ninths of nine tenths of one thousand? SOLUTION One hundred. The trick is to work backwards. Nine-tenths of a thousand is nine hundred and eight-ninths of nine hundred is eight hundred etc., all the way down to the final answer of one hundred. Tease 50 At a card game one of the players poses a question. "In an ordinary deck of playing cards, two of the jacks have two eyes and two of the Jacks have one yes. How many eyes are on the four Jack cards?" SOLUTION Since each Jack has two faces, the total number is 12. |
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