August 19th, 2016
Today's Question - Wrap it up - add one letter to the front and one letter to the back to make a new word (no's"). A) _rank_; B) _indies_; C) _lear_; D) _attic_ August 11, 2016 Page 3 of 3 There will be No Comments Friday. I am off on another mission.
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Answer - All of the verbs have a past tense that rhymes with "ought." Just as the old verb "wright" (to make) became "wrought."Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 18th, 2016
Today's Question - Rustling along –Silky Sullivan heard Roy Rogers pose this problem - Some rustlers raided the Double D ranch one summer night. The first group drove off 1/3 of the herd plus 1/3 of a cow. The second group stole 1/4 of the remaining herd plus 1/4 of a cow. A third group rustled 1/5th of what was left plus 1/5th of a cow. When the rancher arrived, there were 409 cattle left. How large was the original herd??
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Answer - The rustlers arrived to find a herd of 1025 cattle. This allowed them to rustle bloodlessly.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 16th, 2016
Today’s Question - There are six state capitals that start with the letter "S". What are they?
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Answer - William Howard Taft who was U.S. President from 1909-1913 served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1921-1930).Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 15th, 2016
Today's Question - Positive ions in the air. Can you fill in the blanks to make a word __ i o n __ __ __? You could be a hero if you get it.
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Answer - The word we got was l i o n i z e although bionics and others might fit.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 10th, 2016
Today’s Question – Elwood had gone to his favorite organic fruit store and come back with exactly 100 items having spent exactly $100. There were only three kinds of fruit. There were hand melons at $5 per and cantaloupes at $2 per and grapes at a dime each. How many of each item in the 100 items that cost exactly $100? Algebra does not help. You need a large dollop of logic and them some trial and error.
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Answer - To wrap it up - "cranky; "windiest; "bleary"; lattice".Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 9th, 2016
Today’s Question – Bob was waiting for a friend to arrive. To kill time he puzzled over a game between checkers and tic, tac, toe. It had two red checkers and two white checkers on five squares. It looked like this: R R __ W W. You can slide a checker and/or jump a checker. Can you help Bob reverse the checkers in eight moves? Cashin’s Comments August 9, 2016 Page 3 of 3
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Answer \xe2\x80\x93 Here\xe2\x80\x99s one solution: 0) 1) 2) 3) 4)Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 8th, 2016
Today’s Question - Next Register Please - Al rushed through the express register with three cans of soup and four cans of sauce. He paid $3.10. He realized he was supposed to get four soups and three sauces. When he exchanged a can of sauce for a can of soup, they made Al pay 10 cents more. What is the price of a can of soup?
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Answer - "Next Register Please" - If Al paid $3.10 for 3 cans of soup and 4 cans of sauce - and paid 10 cents more to swap 1 sauce for 1 soup - a can of soup cost 50\xc2\xa2 and 1 sauce = 40\xc2\xa2 (and yes I do think supper sounds dreadful!!)Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 4th, 2016
Today's Question - If a guy wears a clean blue shirt every day but can only get to the cleaners once a week to drop off his week's laundry and pick up last week's laundry, how many shirts must he own? NO COMMENTS FRIDAY
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Answer - The gent in question would need 15 shirts (7 to drop off, 7 to pick up - and one to wear to the cleaners).Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 3rd, 2016
Today's Question – (For those who say we give them "Child's Play) – Fill in the blank – 1, 5, 14, 30, 55, __, 140
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Answer - 1, 5, 14, 30, 55, ____, 140 / Ans. 91 - Starting with "0" it is the previous number plus a progressive "square." Thus (0 + 12 = 1); (1 + 22 = 5); (5 + 32 = 14); etc.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 29th, 2016
Today's Question - Seven up! Can you name the 7 Dwarfs; 7 seas; 7 Hills of Rome; 7 Wonders of the Ancient World? Beer, Rogers, Snap, Bread = Ginger Bean, Espionage, Attack, Clockwise = Counter Doors, Dressing, Toast, Fries = French Father, Bomb, Capsule, Peace = Time Body, Muffin, Channel, Language = English 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) There will be No Comments Monday I'm on yet another mission
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Answer - The state capitals containing the letter "U" twice are: Augusta, Maine; Columbus, Ohio; Juneau, Alaska and Honolulu, Hawaii.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 28th, 2016
Today's Question - In each of these series there is a word you must find that would be common if joined either in front or in back of each word. Example: Hoar, Jack, Bite, Robert = "Frost"
July 26th, 2016
Today's Question - Professor Keker knew how to get the Freshman Class's attention. He put three cans of beer on one side of a balance board. He put a half pound lead weight and one can of beer on the other. The board balanced evenly. Okay, Hot Shots! he said, "What does each of these cans of beer weigh? Okay hotshots, what's the answer?
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Answer - The numbers 5, 8, 12 and 20 all add up to 45. And - if you apply the number 2 in the manner suggested - you wind up with 10, 10, 10, 10.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 25th, 2016
Today’s Question - (In honor of baseball season) In the poem "Casey at the Bat", what was the score when Casey got to bat? Was anyone on base? And what was the size of the crowd?
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Answer - The score was 4 to 2 with Mudville trailing. There were two out with runners Flynn was on third base and Jimmy Blake on second base). The attendance was 5000 (assuming one tongue per person).Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 21st, 2016
Today's Question - "Ahoy Matey!" - You don't have to know your "mizzen" from your "main" to answer this - What runs fore to aft on one side of a ship and aft to fore on the other? NO COMMENTS FRIDAY I AM ON YET ONE MORE SPECIAL MISSION
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Answer - The most obvious thing that runs fore to aft on one side of a ship and aft to fore on the other is - its name.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 20th, 2016
Today's Question – Here's a trivia question passed along by a good friend. The words in the following list have two things in common. The first is pretty simple and evident. The other is a lot more obscure. For a hint we'll say beginnings and ending. "Banana, Dresser, Grammar, Potato, Revive, Uneven, Assess"
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Answers: 1) All words have at least two double letters. 2) In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 19th, 2016
Today's Question - Stay in line, please! The hall monitor has the 5th grade boys in a single row, shoulder to shoulder. Jeff is between Jim and Paul. Zack is standing on Paul's right side. Between which two boys is Paul standing?
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Answer - We already knew that Zack was on Paul's right. That means Jeff is on Paul's left.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 15th, 2016
Today's Question - You have exactly $1.00 in a total of 50 coins. You accidentally drop all the coins on the ground and one rolls into the sewer. What are the odds that the one coin that rolled into the sewer was a quarter? NO COMMENTS MONDAY
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Answer - There are two separate combinations of 50 coins that add up to $1.00 (Set A - 40 pennies; 8 nickels; 2 dimes or Set B - 45 pennies; 2 nickels; 2 dimes; 1 quarter.) Since we don\'t know for sure which set you carried and dropped the universe is 100 coins. (If you dropped "Set A", the chances were 0 in 50 and for "Set B", the chances are 1 in 50.) So....given the universe, chances are 1 in 100 it was a quarter.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 14th, 2016
Today’s Question - If a doctor gave you three pills and said "take one every half hour" how long would they last?
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Answer - If a doctor gave you three pills and told you to "take one every half hour" they would last exactly one hour (pill #1 at 1:00, #2 at 1:30; #3 at 2:00).Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 13th, 2016
Today's Question - Rudy was on a sales trip and wound up eating dinner alone. He had a good steak and a wonderful but expensive bottle of wine (at least for eating alone). The bill before tax and tip came to $85. If 5 times the cost of the wine equaled 12 times the cost of the steak - how much did each cost?
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Answer - Rudy's meal for $85 was a $25 steak and a $60 bottle of wine. I'm sure he didn't put it in since he ate alone.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 12th, 2016
Today's Question - I've got your number! Here's a tricky number puzzle. There is a certain number that if you subtract 5 from it, you can divide the answer by six. In fact, whatever number you subtract, the answer will be divisible by the next number in order. (4 = 5; 9 = 10; etc.) What is this silly number?
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Answer - The magic number is "-1" (as in "minus one"). If you subtract 5 from -1 you get -6 which is divisible by 6 etc.; etc.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 11th, 2016
Today’s Question – Al and Sal are watching the ball game. Each has a beverage or two. Al realizes that if he gave Sal one bottle, Sal would have twice as many bottles as Al. But if Al took one from Sal, they would be equal. How many does each have?
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Answer \xe2\x80\x93 Al would have had five \xe2\x80\x9citems\xe2\x80\x9d and Sal would have seven.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 1st, 2016
Today's Question - Hoss Sullivan has his own little Ponderosa. Al, his pal, asked him how many horses he had. Hoss told him this riddle. "If 1/4 and 1/5 and 1/6 of the herd were added together, there would be 37 horses." How big is Hoss's herd? NO COMMENTS NEXT WEEK WONDER WOMAN ON A VERY SPECIAL MISSION (I'M OFF ON TUESDAY)
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Answer - Hoss Sullivan had 60 horses (lowest common denominator).Doesn't match Missing info Like question
June 29th, 2016
Today's Question - Move over McDonalds. Carry is cooking breakfast for the kids. It's egg and cheese on a muffin. They cost $1.20. The muffin costs 1 dollar less than the egg & cheese. How much is the muffin alone?
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Answer - If you added "o" to "rightness" and shuffled the letters, you found the wearing apparel called "shoestrings" or bikinis in some areas.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
June 24th, 2016
Today's Question - Anagram shuffles - Shuffle "Gardenia" to get a plumbing problem. Shuffle "Avarice" to get a high priced food. Shuffle "Soupcon" to get a store come on. = "Brides" = "Umpire" Unhappy Remains Not Clean = "Debris" = "Impure" B) Field Arbiter NO COMMENTS MONDAY. I'M ON A SPECIAL MISSION
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Answer - If the minute hand and hour hand intersect every 61 minutes, the clock runs 4 minutes and 23 seconds fast each hour. On a normal clock, the hands intersect every 65 minutes and 27.3 seconds.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
June 23rd, 2016
Today's Question - "Excuse me; I appear to be all mixed up!" Here are two clues for two different words both made up of the same letters. The second clue is followed by the number of letters in parens. Example: Ages well; hidden predator (6) would be: ripens, sniper. A) B)