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ICOT, Esther, GivPerf: Correct.
What is the last word in the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance?
ICOT –
a – I believe your missing a comma and quotations (Note that I’m no Professor of English.) My answer is:
I said that, “that ‘that’ that that man wrote should have been underlined.”
b – correct
c – correct (a volcano)
d – meaning it has 3 consecutive sets of two letters
BTW the “Brain Wave CD” puzzle, I’m still unsure which of Feivel’s page 1 puzzle you are comparing it to, but if your referring to Feivel’s coin puzzle on page 1, this is different (and not the answer your gave in your last response – nor does the response requires any luck.) Either way, I believe this is different.
BTW Ray Tomlinson invented e-mail in 1971, for the ARPANet (created by the US Military), the predecessor of the Internet.
dont have internet – you should start a new thread and tell all about them
Which three presidents died on July 4?
Complete the last two in this sequence: 1=3, 2=3, 3=5, 4=4, 5=4, 6=3, 7=5, 8=5, 9=4, 10=3, 11=?, 12=?
Can you punctuate the following, in order to make it a proper English sentence?
I said that that that that that man wrote should have been underlined
You can take away the whole and still have some left. You can take away some and still have the whole left. What is it?
The thunder comes before the lightning; the lightning comes before the clouds. The rain dries everything it touches.
What are the only English words with three consecutive repeated letters. For example, sweet-toothed would be one (ee,tt,oo) if it weren’t for the hyphen.
oomis1105,
Chazal had Ruach Hakodesh.
50 pounds.
The weight of the solids is 1 percent — which was 1 pound when the watermelon weighed 100 pounds. That same 1 pound is now the 2 percent of the watermelon after the water evaporation. So figure out 2 percent of what weight is 1 pound. 0.02x = 1 lb., x = new weight (50 lbs.)
brooklyn19 – Your guess is C-O-R-R-E-C-T!
Next:
Who invented e-mail?
(a) Bill Gates
(b) Steve Case
(c) Greg Carr
(d) Ray Tomlinson
I can only try –
re: the “brain wave cd” puzzle, if your referring to Feivel’s coin puzzle on page 1, this is different (and not the answer your gave in your last response.) And the response requires no luck.
re: the “15 gold pieces”, your answer is correct; I have another solution though:
1. Put 7 gold bars on each side. If they are equal in weight, the one left out is the light one. If unequal, go to step two.
2. Take the gold bars from the lighter side and put three on each side. If they are equal in weight, the one left out is the light one. If unequal, go to step three.
3. Take the gold bars from the lighter side and put one on each side. One will be the light one, or if they are equal in weight, the one left out is the light one.
charlie
jf02 has taken a liking to pointing out everyones grammatical errors. That I believe was notposhut’s point :-O
Esther & brooklyn, correct. And both escaped conviction; Slick Willie on a 50-50 vote in the Senate and Johnson by 35-19 in favor (less than the 2/3 requirement.)
NEXT:
We all know that John Hancock is the man who signed his name the largest at the bottom of The Declaration of Independence. Why did he sign so big?
(a) Because he was proud.
(b) Because he was egotistical
(c) Because he wanted King George to see it without his glasses on
(d) All of the above
Who were the only two U.S. President’s ever impeached?
consider it done. get my email from the editor.
squeak, that must’ve been back in the day… 🙂
Now are you open for lunch?
99, can you guess what #?
brooklyn19, that would work, but would require using the post office scale more than the optimal method. He wans to keep his costs down, and use the scale the least possible number of times.
dont have internet & brooklyn19:
That doesn’t make sense; I can’t think of any screen name that says controversial stuff on YW.
asdfghjkl – You seem to post between 1 AM and 5 AM Irish time. Do you work the graveyard shift?
There is always plausible deniability.
anon: If you or anyone does come up with the actual answer to “What is the meaning of life?”, I’d assume we’ll all hear about it as your accepting your prize in Oslo…
Until then can anyone address one of the more simpler riddles here, either one of the two Cryptogram Puzzles or Logic Riddles presented.
🙂
The fox would then eat the goose, as the farmer was taking over the corn.
brooklyn19, sorry 🙁
Esther – precisely!
7 – The frog advances 2 feet with each jump, but he jumps 3 feet, so the 7th jump, starting at 12 feet, brings him to 15 feet, which takes him out of the hole.
NEXT:
A farmer was going to town with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. When he came to a stream, he had to cross in a tiny boat, and could only take across one thing at a time. However, if he left the fox alone with the goose, the fox would eat the goose, and if he left the goose alone with the corn, the goose would eat the corn. How does he get them all safely over the stream?
I definitely am not…
BYM, no…
anon, are you answering a riddle with a riddle?
BYM: Can you bring me a cup of coffee?
Strong, no sugar, 2% Cholov Yisroel milk.
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Wow, just like the YW Moderator who asked for it that way in the other thread.
well to paraphrase a VP candidate (add it to the random question thead “who said…and to whom did he say it to”) well, I know that moderator, I Moderate with that Moderator, Joseph you are not that Moderator.
–YW Moderator-72
brooklyn19: beautiful!!
He said, “You’ll sentence me to six years in prison.” If it was true, then the judge would have to make it false by sentencing him to four years. If it was false, then he would have to give him six years, which would make it true. Rather than contradict his own word, the judge set the man free.
NEXT:
A frog fell into a hole that was 14 1/2 feet deep. He could jump 3 feet, but he slid back a foot each time he jumped. How many jumps does it take him to get out of the hole?
For the logical amongst us… 2 logic riddles:
Riddle #1: The Problem Of The Brainwave CD Weights
You manufacture brain wave entrainment CDs for companies that sell self-improvement products. You are at the post office, with ten boxes of them ready to close up and ship out, but you have a problem. Nine of the boxes contain CDs that are designed to put the listener into an “alpha” or relaxing state, and one is full of Cds that are designed to put the user into a deeper “delta” state, for deep sleep. They look identical, and you forgot to label them.
There is one difference, however. You remember that the “alpha” Cds weigh 13 grams, and because different CD “blanks were used, the “delta” Cds weigh 15 grams. Unfortunately, you can’t feel the difference in weight by lifting them.
The post office does have a scale. It costs one dollar each time you weigh something, though, and you want to keep your costs down. How do you use the scale as few times as possible to determine which are the “delta” CDs?
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Riddle #2: Weighing The Gold
You have 15 tiny gold bars and a balance scale. One of the bars is lighter than the others, but you can’t tell the difference by feel. What is least number of times you could use the scale to determine which one is the light one?
Two Cryptogram Puzzles
Cryptogram Puzzle # 1
Let’s start with a simple Caesar cipher. If you have worked on cryptograms before, you’ll want to skip past this one, as it will not be much of a challenge.
Decipher the following quote from a famous mathematician:
fq pqv yqtta cdqsv aqwt fkhhkewnvkgu kp ocvjgocvkeu. k ecp cuuwtg aqw okpg atg uvknn itgcvgt. – cndgtv gkpuvgkp
Cryptogram Puzzle # 2
This one uses numbers in place of letters.
Decipher the following quote about intelligence.
3325863186 2432 881621163412 3216 24313124331933248826 1932 3216878621163412 53243325 89863232 248833868989242686884286 198834 87163186 3286883286 33251988 5386 25195786. – 341688 258631168934
As you might imagine, a cipher using numbers can be tougher than one using letters. There are only 26 letters in English after all, while even just using a two-digit number for each letter allows for 100 possible substitutions.
This isn’t a very difficult cryptogram, however. It still uses a simple alphanumeric-substitution cipher, and so can be solved using letter-frequency analysis or even a brute force attack, in which you try out the various possibilities one after the other.
A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, “You may make a statement. If it is true, I’ll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I’ll sentence you to six years in prison.” After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?
Next Riddle:
What is the meaning of life?
A man is six feet tall, is a clerk at a butcher shop, and wears size 11 shoes. What does he weigh?
ahem, cough!
ahem, mod, you didn’t address my last post.
mod – Just smile, please.
asdfghjkl – and I thought I was…
asdfghjkl – MYRCB boys are a great catch. You’d be lucky to get one.
mod – Will an admission be forthcoming on a correct guess?
“1)Who becomes president if the current president and vice president die before the newly elected president has been sworn in????”
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, until the President-Elect is inaugurated on Jan. 20.
2)Who was the youngest US President?
John Kennedy.