Submit your answer below. Answer will be given by me at the end of the day. Note these brain teasers are not created by me... Today's brain teaser is: Below are incomplete words. Place two letters in each bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and begin the word on the right. Good luck.
Fu (--) am Ed (--) ar Dit (--) urch Ju (--) eam Ran (--) ese Divi (--) bt Pi (--) upt Dro (--) rse Tr (--) aze Bud (--) nder Don't worry if you can't figure it out...(I personally only managed to fill 5 blanks)
As his name would suggest, Joe was not a meek, quiet fellow. In fact he had such difficulty keeping quiet, both his local and university library banned him. His roommate, being a music major and a sound engineer, said he could solve his problem, but Joe would need to trust him. He gave Joe his 75-watt ghetto blaster, a CD, fake mustache, and a long blond wig. Joe, who is sceptical but intrigued, decided to give it a shot. Joe, disguised as one of the professors, entered the university library. He placed the CD player on the table in front of him; loaded the CD; cranked the volume full and braced himself as he turned it on. Surprisingly there was only a very very faint sshh. Joe then realized that he couldn't hear anything at all. He spoke normally, and then yelled, but no one reacted. Awesome, he thought as he began flailing his arms around and shouting as loud as he could. Unfortunately, the librarian, seeing him moving but hearing nothing, assumed he was choking and performed the Heimlich maneuver on him, knocking his wig off, causing the librarian to perform the hind kick maneuver right out the door. Poor Joe. But what had his roommate done? What was on that mysterious CD that made everything quiet? Hint: (scientific explanation
I won't be around a computer tomorrow so for the next day the brain teaser is:
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 1/2 goat? no hint for this one (it's self explanatory) answers will be announced on Saturday night
This is sort of odd. Couldn't we have real brain teasers instead of riddles?
second one is a brain teaser (and riddles are in a way brain teasers) Anyway for you billybob here is this math teaser: Some people believe that January 1, 2000 is the first day of the 21st century. Other people believe that the honor belongs to January 1, 2001. But everyone should agree that January 1, 2002 is the first "sum-day" of the new century- when you write out that date in standard notation, it becomes 01/01/02, and 1+1=2. More generally, a sum-day is a date in which the day and month add up to the year. With that in mind:
A) What is the last sum-day of the 21st century?
B) How many sum-days are there in the 21st century?
firetail is correct The answer for the library problem is the Infrasound. (sound that is lower then the human ear can hear, so as long as that sound is louder then Joe's voice no one will hear anything.
as for the math problem its actually quite simple A) The last sum-day of the 21st century is December 31, 2043, because 12+31=43, and both the month and day are as big as possible.
B) This one is much easier than you might think. The correct answer is 365, because every day in a standard (non-leap) year is part of a sum-day for some year. For example, November 26 is a sum-day for the year 2037, because 11+26=37. The only date for which this principle doesn't work is the leap day, February 29. That's because 2+29=31, but 2031 is not a leap year.
New one: It is well known that there are seven months with 31 days - January, March, May, July, August, October and December.
February is always the shortest month, with only 28 days (or 29 days in a leap year).
However, it is a little known fact that one month of the year is always longer than the others.
(perhaps I should put a new brainteaser every time the previous one gets answered correctly, who agrees?)
the new brain teaser is: river crossing problem Three missionaries and three cannibals want to get to the other side of a river. There is a small boat, which can fit only two. To prevent a tragedy, there can never be more cannibals than missionaries together.
Missionary = M Cannibal = C M&C goes first. 1 M, 1 C on other side M goes back and takes another C. 1 M (the M leaves before the Cs can it him), 2 C on other side M goes back quickly again and takes a M. 2 M, 2 C on other side M goes back and takes another M. 3 M, 2 C on other side. M or C (doesn't really matter) goes and takes the C. 3 M, 3 C on the other side.
Oh I know how to correct that... REMAKE OF 6th LINE: M & C go back leaving the C in the boat in that side while taking an M to the other side. 3 M, 2 C on other side.
1 cannibal and 1 missionary there, missionary back. 2 cannibals there, 1 cannibal back. 2 missionaries there, 1 missionary and 1 cannibal back. 2 missionaries there, 1 cannibal back. This one cannibal takes the remaining cannibals to the other side.
sorry for being late (something went wrong with the network yesterday)
New brain teaser Measure exactly 2 liters of water if you have:
1) 4 and 5-liter bowls 2) 4 and 3-liter bowls
Answer (hopefully) will be given as usual at nine o clock tonight (USA North Atlantic time zone)
