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I Move Quickly

Physicists have built devices to make me move quickly. My last eight letters can be commonly found in newspapers, magazines, and journals.

What am I?

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Particles. Physicists use particle accelerators and newspapers, magazines and journals have articles.

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When I Point Up It’s Bright

When I point up, it’s bright.
When I point down, it’s dark.

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A light switch

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Word Pronounced Incorrectly

What 11-letter word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?

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The word “incorrectly”.

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One In China

I am one in China,
Two in Indonesia,
Three in the Philippines,
None in Japan.

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The letter ‘i’.

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A Woman Without All Her Fingers On One Hand

What do you call a woman who doesn’t have all her fingers on one hand?

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Normal. Women (and men for that matter) have half of their fingers on one hand and half of them on the other.

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Sixteen, Twenty-six, Then What?

Fill in the missing numbers in this number series.

16, 26, ?, 43, 50, ?, 61, 65, ?, 70, 71

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The method to create the series is start by adding 10, then decrease the addend by 1 for each new number in the sequence. That gives us:16 + 10 = 26
26 + 9 = 35
35 + 8 = 43
43 + 7 = 50
50 + 6 = 56
56 + 5 = 61
61 + 4 = 65
65 + 3 = 68
68 + 2 = 70
70 + 1 = 71

The method to create the series is start by adding 10, then decrease the addend by 1 for each new number in the sequence. That gives us:

16 + 10 = 26
26 + 9 = 35
35 + 8 = 43
43 + 7 = 50
50 + 6 = 56
56 + 5 = 61
61 + 4 = 65
65 + 3 = 68
68 + 2 = 70
70 + 1 = 71

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Mental Calculations

Perform this calculation in your head, mentally adding the numbers as quickly as you can. Start with 1000 and add 40. Now add 1000. Add 30 to that, then add another 1000. Now add 20 to that result. Add another 1000 and finally, add 10 to that. What is the total?

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4,100. If you got 5,000 you’re not alone. 96% of test subjects get the wrong answer.

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Rude Otto

Hannah, Otto, Todd and Eve were walking down the street. Suddenly Otto rudely told Todd he was an outsider and didn’t belong. What made Todd different?

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Todd is not a palindrome.

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A Fruity Series

What is the next letter in this fruity series?

a a a p p ?

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Y.

The series consists of the letters of papaya in alphabetical order.

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Coat Best Put On Wet

What kind of coat is best put on wet?

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A coat of paint.

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