Phil asks his friend Stan when his birthday is. Stan replies that he was 32 the day before yesterday and next year he’ll be 35. When is his birthday and how is this possible?
Today is Jan 1st and his birthday is on December 31st. He was 32, then turned 33 on Dec 31st, and this year on Dec 31st he’ll turn 34, so next year he’ll be 35.
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him under water for five minutes. Finally, she hangs him. Five minutes later they enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, I am the partner of ready. Restore me, I become the domain of beasts.
Stable. A table is a place of meeting. Able and ready is a common phrase, and a stable is where beasts reside (beasts of burden, not beasts like the one in Beauty and the Beast who lived in a glorious castle but the west wing was forbidden to enter until Belle…I’ve said too much!).
Use each clue to identify a famous person who last name ends in the letters T-O-N, like George Washington.
1. Friends star 2. Cotton Club bandleader 3. Batman and Beetlejuice lead 4. Blonde, buxom country music legend
Halfway there!
5. Steamboat developer 6. Author of The Age of Innocence 7. Found of a Kmart rival and a Club 8. She lead a news website called The (her last name) Post
Zero is nothing, yet when you add zeroes to a number like 1, it becomes 10, 100 or 1,000.
The ancient Greeks did not have a name for zero and did not use a placeholder. They seemed unsure about the status of zero as a number, philosophizing about how nothing could be something. Once zero was added, it allowed for more mathematical understanding.
What is the highest product that can be generated by multiplying two numbers while only using each digit once (1 through 9)? For example, 12345678 * 9 = 111,111,102