August 14th, 2018
Today's Question - Timmy is back studying for his GED. He has been taking the remedial course so long they refer to him as T. Here's the problem Timmy is stuck on - The New Wall Street Zoo has two special oddities: a six legged bull and a four legged pigeon. Assuming all the other animals are normal - if the total of heads is 36 and the total of legs is 100 - How many birds and how many beasts are in the zoo?
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Answer - Including the two odd creatures, there are 24 birds and 12 beasts.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 13th, 2018
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 9th, 2018
Today's Question - All the President's men - Do you know this piece of presidential trivia - of the three branches of government, U.S. Presidents have come from the House and the Senate. What U.S. President sat on the Supreme Court?
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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 8th, 2018
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. \x0cNO COMMENTS FRIDAY GIVING A SPEECH HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND! Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments August 9, 2018 Page 3 of 3Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 7th, 2018
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_
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Answer - To wrap it up - "cranky; "windiest; "bleary"; lattice".Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 6th, 2018
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 - The large dollop of logic we suggested was that the grapes had to come in lots of 10 in order for the total to be in dollars and not odd cents. So the possible number of grapes could only be 10, 20, 30, etc. for a maximum of 10 possibilities. You then knew you need some combination of melons and cantaloupes to provide correct number of items and correct amount to complement the grapes. Obviously that rules out any grape total below 50 or over 80. So with a little tinkering we get 70 grapes, 19 cantaloupes and 11 melons.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
August 2nd, 2018
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? NO COMMENTS FRIDAY VACATION DAY
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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 1st, 2018
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? August 1, 2018 Page 3 of 3 Early Notice Cashin’s Comments No Comments Friday Vacation Day
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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!!) \x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments August 2, 2018 Page 3 of 3Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 31st, 2018
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?
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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
July 30th, 2018
Today’s Question - A capital idea. We know four state capitals that have two letter "U's" in their name. What are they?
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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 26th, 2018
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 NO COMMENTS FRIDAY NOT MEDICAL THIS TIME A REAL VACATION DAY
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The 7 Dwarfs: Bashful; Doc; Dopey; Grumpy; Happy; Sleepy; Sneezy. The 7 Seas: The 7 Hills of Rome: The Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal, and Viminal. The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World: Pyramids of Egypt (only wonder left); Hanging Gardens of Babylon; Statue of Zeus at Olympia; The Temple of Diana at Ephesus; Mausoleum at Halicarnassus; The Colossus of Rhodes; Lighthouse at Alexandria. 188K 3.9% $-45.6 Bln. 34.5 Hrs. 0.3% 56.2 58.8 N.A. Antarctic; Artic; Indian; North Atlantic; South Atlantic; North Pacific; South Pacific.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 25th, 2018
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"
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July 24th, 2018
Today's Question - You are too, too similar. There are 4 different numbers that when all are added together come to a total of 45. They have another strange relationship, however, and it relates to 2. If you multiply the first by 2, add 2 to the second, subtract 2 from the 3rd and divide the last by 2 you will now have 4 numbers, which are all the same. Do you know these components of 45?
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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. \x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments July 25, 2018 Page 3 of 3 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Beer, Rogers, Snap, Bread = ? Bean, Espionage, Attack, Clockwise = ? Doors, Dressing, Toast, Fries = ? Father, Bomb, Capsule, Peace = ? Body, Muffin, Channel, Language = ?Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 23rd, 2018
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?
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Answer - Hoss Sullivan had 60 horses (lowest common denominator).Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 19th, 2018
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? NO COMMENTS FRIDAY
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Answer - If the muffin costs one dollar less than the fixings and the whole thing costs $1.20, then the muffin costs a dime.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 18th, 2018
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?
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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 17th, 2018
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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\x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments July 18, 2018 Page 3 of 3 Answer - Each can of beer weighed 4 ounces or 1/4 lb. (That is, assuming all the cans were equal). So many people got it so quickly, that maybe some dependency counseling is in order.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 16th, 2018
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.Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 11th, 2018
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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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 10th, 2018
Today's Question - How's that again? Suppose a clock runs fast - and its hour hand and minute hand overlap every 61 minutes. How fast does the clock run every hour? (Math will help but we'll give credit to the closest minute.)
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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
July 9th, 2018
Today's Question - Spelling numbers. In the spelling of all the numbers from 1 through 99 - How many A's are there? How many D's? How many L's?
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Answer - There are no A's; no D's and 2 L's (Eleven, Twelve). \x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments July 10, 2018 Page 3 of 3Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 3rd, 2018
Today’s Question – Bob was fondly recalling the days of fractional trading. (Maybe the bartender was slow!) Anyway, the fraction game led him to the following curiosity. Bob picked a particular fraction. When he added "5" to the numerator and "7" to the denominator, the new fraction equaled three fourths. If he added "7" to the "N and D", the new fraction equaled 5/6ths. What was Bob's original fraction? No Comment balance of week. Hopefully resolving majority of medical issues. (As Bette Davis once said – "Old age is not for sissies") Cashin’s Comments July 3, 2018 Page 3 of 3
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Answer - Bob's original fraction was 13 over 17. By adding 5 to 13, we get 18 and by adding 7 to 17 we get 24. Thus 18/24 equals 3/4. By adding 7 to both we get 20/24 which equals 5/6. Too easy, huh?Doesn't match Missing info Like question
July 2nd, 2018
Today's Question - Can they really ask that on a job application? David was looking for a new mountain to climb. The interviewer asked how old he was. David replied - "I am 35 years old if you skip Saturdays and Sundays. How old was David at this interview?
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Answer - David was 49 years old on that particular interview (5 out of 7 days times 49 years equals 35 years).Doesn't match Missing info Like question
June 28th, 2018
Today's Question - Mrs. Fitz can't get her little boy Timmy to learn geography. (She can't even get him out of McDonald's.) So she promises him Egg McMuffins for a year if he can tell her (without looking) what state is bordered by both Carolinas? Please help little Timmy. NO COMMENTS TOMORROW MORE MEDICAL STUFF
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Answer - The state that is bordered by both Carolinas is Georgia. 190K 3.8% 34.5 Hrs, 0.2% -43.5 bln. N.A. N.A. \x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments July 1, 2018 Page 4 of 4Doesn't match Missing info Like question
June 27th, 2018
Today's Question - Are you flipping crazy? The Bailley Normal School needed a valedictorian. Given the records, they decided on a flip-off (heads or tails?) to select one of the 99 seniors. To avoid any accidental favoritism, the Headmaster furnished a fresh coin for each one on one flip. How many quarters would he need?
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Answer - Since 98 seniors were eliminated, that would mean 98 contests with one loser apiece. So, the Headmaster would need 98 coins which he probably got from the parent's Council.Doesn't match Missing info Like question