I am something many people don’t enjoy having as a friend, including you. But I am called upon anytime someone is injured. I have 5 letters and when my last letter is put before my first letter, I become a country.
A secret lair has a code to only allow members to enter. The person wanting to enter says a random number, then is told a number in response. In order to enter they must say the correct third number. Here are sequences that allowed entrance.
Five because s-e-v-e-n has 5 letters. The first number can be anything, the second number is the number of letters in the first number, and the third number is the number of letters in the second number.
A one way street sign. It tells you the correct way to go, is black and white (in the United States), going the wrong way can get you a citation and the sign only has two words on it.
In 2012 a class was divided into 2 groups. Their assignment was to find the names of at least 3 children who were born on the same day from 5 different months of 2011. These were the results:
Group 1 August 20: Oliver, William, and Adam. January 3: John, Alice, and Ken. September 7: Bruce, Shane, and Peter. June 11: April, Patrick, and Bobby. July 19: Trent, Julie, and Charles.
Group 2 March 1: Karl, Willie, and Patty. February 29: Blake, Kobe, and Wayne. December 24: Kyle, Chad, and Zoe. May 12: Matthew, Manny, and Adrian. November 20: Greg, Fiona, and Elizabeth.
The members of group 2 got an F on the assignment. Why?
A harvest sown and reaped on the same day In an unplowed field, Which increases without growing, Remains whole though it is eaten Within and without, Is useless and yet The staple of nations.
