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King Tut was born on 20 B.C.

If King Eros died at the age of 40, then he was born on 80 B.C. (40 years before 40 B.C.)
King Tut would have died on 40 A.D. (120 years after 80 B.C.)
King Tut died at the age of 60 (100-40), he was born on 20 B.C. (60 years before 40 A.D.)

If King Eros died at the age of 30, then he was born on 70 B.C. (30 years before 40 B.C.)
King Tut would have died on 50 A.D. (120 years after 70 B.C.)
King Tut died at the age of 70 (100-30), he was born on 20 B.C. (70 years before 50 A.D.)

So it would seem that what ever their ages were when they died, King Tut was born on 20 B.C.

Yay I got it! Lol. And yea, I agree with driejen. Nothing else to really say. :P

King Tut died 120 years after King Eros was born. Their combined ages when they died was 100 years. King Eros died in the year 40 B.C. In what year was King Tut born?

I was recently solving some sodoku puzzles and I decided to make a little puzzle, its probably easy for those that regularly solve sodoku's but here it is.

Correctly place atleast 1 number in the grid. (no guess work)

I got sorta stuck at this point. Then I got sidetracked and I don't feel like finishing it.

ahh, so you have completed my challenge, I only intended for one number to be added, theres not enough numbers to complete the grid i think. I got stuck around the same stage your at.

Over 500 solutions for the above sudoku

Anyway, yes king tut was born 20bc

A horse travels the same distance every day.

Oddly, two of its legs travel 30 miles each day and the other two legs travel nearly 31 miles.

It would seem that two of the horse's legs must be one mile ahead of the other two legs, but of course this can't be true.

Since the horse is normal, how is this situation possible?

Two legs are a little bit longer...

No thepossum, it is normal in every way. No deformations of any kind.

the horse is normal,

OK. I got it. The horse walks in a circle. Then the two legs on the outside will go further then the others. Assuming that the horse's legs are two feet apart, it's a circle with about a 60 foot radius and the horse has done around 420 laps.

if the horse was to run in a big circle, two of his legs facing towards the centre of the circle will travel slightly less distance than the two legs facing away from the centre of the circle. Or maybe the horse is running on its hind legs? then its front legs would travel more distance due to the curvature of the earth, although this would be insignificant and i wouldn't call a horse running on two feet 'normal'.

The horse operates a mill and travels in a circular clockwise direction. The two outside legs will travel a greater distance than the two inside legs.

The paragraph below is most unusual. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?



"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honour got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby , walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "

The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's
Once again the question is, what is so unusual about the passage?

the girl is walking backwards

people dont realise how often the letter "e" is used in the english language. this sentence alone contains 22 e's yet the paragraph has none in it what so ever...

wow


The letter "E" is the most commonly used letter in the English language, yet in the whole passage, there was no "E" used.

you are good

Mr. Moody grumbles about bad time-keeping trains from morning till night!.

On one particular morning he was quiet justified.

His train left on time for the one hour journey, to Clarksville, and it arrived 5 minutes late.

However, Mr. Moody 's watch showed it to be 3 minutes early, so he adjusted his watch by putting it forward 3 minutes.

His watch kept time during the day, and on the return journey in the evening the train started on time, according to his watch, and arrived on time, according to the station clock.

If the train traveled 25 percent faster on the return journey than it did on the morning journey, was the station clock fast or slow, and by how much?