Long legs, crooked thighs,
What am I?
A pair of tongs.
Made of ten but two we make,
What are we?
A fist.
What animal can be created from the head of a lamb, the body of a pig, the hind quarters of a buffalo and the tail of a dragon?
A lion.
Head of a lamb = L
A lion.
Head of a lamb = L
Kaitlyn’s age plus three has an integer square root. Three years ago, Kaitlyn’s age was the square root.
How old is Kaitlyn?
Kaitlyn is 6 years old.
6 + 3 = 9, and 9 has an integer square root.
6 – 3 = 3, and 3 is the square root of 9.
Kaitlyn is 6 years old.
6 + 3 = 9, and 9 has an integer square root.
6 – 3 = 3, and 3 is the square root of 9.
Here are five rolls of dice, with their score.
Roll #1 – Score: 6
Roll #2 – Score: 4
Roll #3 – Score: 4
Roll #4 – Score: 8
Roll #5: 0
This is what you know:
1. The name of this game is significant (Petals Around the Rose)
How is the score determined?
The solution is to count the dots (petals) surrounding the center dot (the rose).
Only odd numbers have a center dot, so even numbers (2, 4 and 6) are worth zero.
1 doesn’t have any surrounding dots, so it too is worth zero.
The three has two dots surrounding the center, so it’s worth two.
A five has four petals around the rose making it worth four.
The solution is to count the dots (petals) surrounding the center dot (the rose).
Only odd numbers have a center dot, so even numbers (2, 4 and 6) are worth zero.
1 doesn’t have any surrounding dots, so it too is worth zero.
The three has two dots surrounding the center, so it’s worth two.
A five has four petals around the rose making it worth four.
What is the shortest word in the English language to contain all of the vowels?
Sequoia, eulogia or miaoued are all good options, but there’s an even shorter (and more obscure) word with all the vowels and not a single consonant: Iouea . It’s not the kind of word you’d use at the dinner table, but it’s listed in the Wikipedia dictionary as a genus of Cretaceous fossil sponges.
If you got really tricky and tried to find a word that contained the letters in the phrase ‘all of the vowels’, you probably found, like I did, that there isn’t one. But it was still worth checking.
Sequoia, eulogia or miaoued are all good options, but there’s an even shorter (and more obscure) word with all the vowels and not a single consonant: Iouea . It’s not the kind of word you’d use at the dinner table, but it’s listed in the Wikipedia dictionary as a genus of Cretaceous fossil sponges.
If you got really tricky and tried to find a word that contained the letters in the phrase ‘all of the vowels’, you probably found, like I did, that there isn’t one. But it was still worth checking.
What two things can you never have for breakfast?
Lunch and dinner.
To be gold is to be good,
What am I?
A heart.
yyyy U R, yyyy U B, I C U R y y 4 ?
What word belongs in place of the question mark?
Me.me .
Me.me .
I am worthless, yet when added to others I add worth.
What am I?
0 (Zero).
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.
0 (Zero).
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.
