What’s black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you’re all through with it?
Charcoal.
What is deep within you, never dies or gets worn out, and only needs some fire from time to time?
Your soul. Your soul is deep inside of you, it never dies and at various points in our lives we all get fired up about something.
Your soul. Your soul is deep inside of you, it never dies and at various points in our lives we all get fired up about something.
The letters in this series are ones that don’t begin something. Figure out what that something is, and what letter comes next.
B E J ?
Q. The thing they don’t begin is states in the United States of America. The final three letters in the series are X, Y and Z.
Q. The thing they don’t begin is states in the United States of America. The final three letters in the series are X, Y and Z.
Debbie starts driving her dragster from rest and constantly accelerates to 60 mph in 10 seconds. How far does she travel in those 10 seconds?
1/12 mile
Ten seconds is 1/6 of a minute and 1 minute is 1/60 of an hour, so 10 seconds is 1/360 of an hour.
If you graph her trip with the speed on the y-axis and the time on the x-axis, you get a triangle with height of 60 mph and width of 1/360 of an hour. To calculate the area of the triangle, you multiply 1/2 × 1/360 × 60 = 1/12.
1/12 mile
Ten seconds is 1/6 of a minute and 1 minute is 1/60 of an hour, so 10 seconds is 1/360 of an hour.
If you graph her trip with the speed on the y-axis and the time on the x-axis, you get a triangle with height of 60 mph and width of 1/360 of an hour. To calculate the area of the triangle, you multiply 1/2 × 1/360 × 60 = 1/12.
The thunder comes before the lightning,
What am I?
A volcano.
The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States of America had the same parents, but were not brothers. How is this possible?
It was the same guy! Grover Cleveland is the only president in history to serve two, non-consecutive terms.
It was the same guy! Grover Cleveland is the only president in history to serve two, non-consecutive terms.
What’s the simplest way to make 20 using only three 3s (no other digits) and a combination of mathematical operations using any of these symbols?
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(3 + 3) / .3 = 20
You are given the numbers 777, 888 and 999. Using the numbers once and adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing, how can you make 999?
(7 x 7 x 7) + (9 x 9 x 8) + ((9 – 8) x 8) = 999
If other operators were allowed, another solution would be 999 modulo (888 x 777). I’m sure there are more solutions.
(7 x 7 x 7) + (9 x 9 x 8) + ((9 – 8) x 8) = 999
If other operators were allowed, another solution would be 999 modulo (888 x 777). I’m sure there are more solutions.
You’ll see me when the sun is high and also late at night,
Kings and Queens and royalty, are all found in me,
Step by step with pounding feet, I’m tribes of angry men,
You’ll use me in the kitchen, or add a little more,
What am I?
Twelve (12).
Noon and midnight are both 12 o’clock and the Twelve Days of Christmas is a popular Christmas carol.
There are twelve face cards in a standard 52-card deck and twelve is the largest number with one syllable.
There are twelve steps in Alcoholics Anonymous, a troy pound is 12 ounces, there were 12 tribes of Israel and a popular movie was called, “Twelve Angry Men” (12 members of the jury). There are twelve function keys on your keyboard. F1 often shows a help screen and F5 reloads pages in your browser.
Many recipes measure items by the dozen, adding one more for a baker’s dozen. There are twelve months in a year.
It’s surprising how many times the number twelve shows up in our culture.
Twelve (12).
Noon and midnight are both 12 o’clock and the Twelve Days of Christmas is a popular Christmas carol.
There are twelve face cards in a standard 52-card deck and twelve is the largest number with one syllable.
There are twelve steps in Alcoholics Anonymous, a troy pound is 12 ounces, there were 12 tribes of Israel and a popular movie was called, “Twelve Angry Men” (12 members of the jury). There are twelve function keys on your keyboard. F1 often shows a help screen and F5 reloads pages in your browser.
Many recipes measure items by the dozen, adding one more for a baker’s dozen. There are twelve months in a year.
It’s surprising how many times the number twelve shows up in our culture.
I am broken before you use me,
What am I?
Glow sticks that you have to break to start glowing, then they fade out (die).
Glow sticks that you have to break to start glowing, then they fade out (die).