PUZZLE SET #2
This puzzle tests you in five facts and figures. Solve the quiz in the order given because each answer is used in the next statement. There are no fractions used.
1. Take the number of the date that Christmas falls on in December and divide it by the number that correctly fills in the blank of the Dolly Parton song title "Nine to ___."
2. Next, add the number of minutes in a quarter of an hour.
3. Now subtract the value of the Roman numeral XVIII.
4. Add the number of people who can ride a single unicycle at a time.
5. Subtract the score of a team that was shut out.
Answer: the number of fictional Musketeers.
If you gave me $1.00, I would have as much money as you. If I gave you $1.00, you would have twice as much as me. How much money do we each have?
Alice, Betty Carol, and Dot will grow to become a politician, a doctor, a sales manager, and a teacher, though not necessarily in that order. One day while discussing their future careers, the four girls each made a prediction. As it happened, only the one prediction made by the future teacher would turn out to be correct. From the predictions below, can you determine what career each girl will have?
In the charade below, each line contains a clue to a letter of the alphabet. These letters, in the given order, will spell out the name of an animal.
My FIRST is in BEAR and in CLEAN.
My SECOND is in CRANE but not in GREEN.
My THIRD is i PORPOISE and in PRIZE.
My FOURTH is in CONDOR but not in COLONIZE.
My FIFTH is in WOLVERINE and in REVEAL.
My SIXTH is in WEASEL but not in WHEEL.
My SEVENTH is in TIGER and in RIGHT.
My EIGHTH is in MUSKRAT but not in SUNLIGHT.
To solve, simply cross out one letter in each pair below. When the puzzle is completed correctly, the remaining letters will spell out a quote.
SW HT TE NT YX DO AU YW OI NU,
AN OR TE NH IQ MN GE HP SU RA TE CS.
QUESTION MOTE WHAT MINUTE YOU IRRITATES SEE
LINKS IN MIRRORS RESPONSE AND UNCOMPLIMENTARY
FACTORY NEWSPAPERS
Eliminate the word...
1. that contains all five vowels (a, e, i, o, and u) in reverse order.
2. that spells out a dance if two letters are switched.
3. that has three consecutive letters of the alphabet grouped together, in any order.
4. that sounds like a wildcat.
5. that can be anagrammed into a body of water when the three parts of duplicated letters are removed.
6. with two vowels that forms an everyday word no matter which vowel (a, e, i, o, or u) is used as its first one.
7. with more than one vowel that forms another word when both end letters are removed.
Two related words, with their letters in the correct order, are combined in each row of letter. Can you find both words? In a line like POBOOXLER, or POboOxDeLEr, you can see the two words POODLE and BOXER.
1. P A H L O B U T O M
2. C R O H A C K E I R R
3. C U R B L A T A N I K E N T
4. B R C O A C C O B B A L I G E
5. M I S N A B L K E
Read the four statements A-D below, and assume that these statements are all true. Next, read statements 1-4 and, using the information received from statements A_D, try to determine if the final four statements are true or false.
At McGregor High School:
A. All teachers who had taught for five years or more had changed schools at least once.
B. The only teachers who went about on bicycles were those who taught math.
C. Only teachers who had taught for less than five years belonged to amateur acting companies.
D. All math teachers had been teaching for more than five years.
1. Clare has taught math in three different schools.
2. Bill, a very good teacher, has changed schools twice and cycles regularly to the amateur acting company to which he belongs.
3. Sam has changed schools three times, but continues to belong to the same amateur acting company.
4. Meg, who is a math teacher, and Dora, her young colleague who started just a year ago, have taught in the same schools and belong to the same acting company.
A whole bunch of colored sticks were scattered below. Can you pick up one stick at a time without disturbing any of the others and figure out which stick is at the very bottom of the pile?
Andrew, Bill, Charlie, Dan, and Ernie were seated around a circular table. Ernie's brother, who was sitting to the right of Charlie, noticed that no two people whose names start with consecutive letters of the alphabet were sitting next to each other. Where was each man sitting in relation to Charlie?
LINK TO PUZZLE SET #2 ANSWERS
http://livelovelaughlearnblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/answers-to-puzzle-set-2.html
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