If you had a ton of feathers and a ton of stones which would be heavier?
Neither. A ton is a ton, no matter what it’s made up of, and they both weigh a ton.
Neither. A ton is a ton, no matter what it’s made up of, and they both weigh a ton.
Never resting, never still,
What am I?
Sunlight (or sunshine).
A metal neither black nor red,
What am I?
Lead. Lead is a metallic gray, is very heavy and in order to stay ahead of someone, you need to be in the lead.
Lead. Lead is a metallic gray, is very heavy and in order to stay ahead of someone, you need to be in the lead.
A word square is a combination of words that can be spelled horizontally and vertically.
The most well known is called the Sator Square (in Latin):
S A T O R
A R E P O
T E N E T
O P E R A
R O T A S
What five words complete this word square?
I T C H E S
T _ _ _ _ _
C _ _ _ _ _
H _ _ _ _ _
E _ _ _ _ _
S _ _ _ _ _
Thrust, Crisco, Hussar, Escape and Stores.
Making this lovely word square below:
I T C H E S
T H R U S T
C R I S C O
H U S S A R
E S C A P E
S T O R E S
Thrust, Crisco, Hussar, Escape and Stores.
Making this lovely word square below:
I T C H E S
T H R U S T
C R I S C O
H U S S A R
E S C A P E
S T O R E S
Without changing the order of these numbers, how can they equal 100?
3 5 6 2 54 5
= 3 * (5 – 6) + 2 * 54 – 5
= 3 * (5 – 6) + 2 * 54 – 5
How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
None. A hole doesn’t have any dirt.
None. A hole doesn’t have any dirt.
What is special about the number 854,917,632?
It is the numbers from one to nine in alphabetical order.
Eight, Five, Four, Nine, One, Seven, Six, Three and Two.
It is the numbers from one to nine in alphabetical order.
Eight, Five, Four, Nine, One, Seven, Six, Three and Two.
Joe and Andrea want to copy three 60-minute cassette tapes. They have a 2-cassette recorder to copy the tapes, allowing them to copy two tapes at a time. Each side takes 30 minutes to be copied, so two tapes can be copied in an hour and the third will take another hour. Andrea bets Joe she can copy all three tapes in 90 minutes. Does she win the bet?
In the first 30 minutes Andrea copies the A sides of tape 1 and 2.
In the first 30 minutes Andrea copies the A sides of tape 1 and 2.
What five-letter word sounds like six letters when pronounced?
Cello. The pronunciation of c is ‘ch’, making it sound like the word has 6 letters.
Cello. The pronunciation of c is ‘ch’, making it sound like the word has 6 letters.
This creature, part man and part tree,
What is it?
A man with a wooden leg.