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BS: Brain Teasers

05 Feb 05 - 04:41 PM (#1400094)
Subject: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Susu's Hubby

You are in a small square room with a window on each wall. You look out one of the windows towards the south. You turn left and look out the next window towards the south. You turn left again and look out the next window towards the south. You turn left once more and look out the last window towards the south. Outside the last window that you look out of, you see a huge bear......

What color is the bear?
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>What's your favorite brain teaser?

05 Feb 05 - 04:51 PM (#1400106)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST,wdyat12

If a millipede a pint and a centipede a quart, how much did a presipice?

wdyat12

05 Feb 05 - 05:20 PM (#1400131)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: wysiwyg

Betcha dunno this one-- How many animals of each type did Moses take on the ark?

~S~

05 Feb 05 - 05:28 PM (#1400136)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST

2

05 Feb 05 - 05:29 PM (#1400137)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Peace

None.

05 Feb 05 - 05:34 PM (#1400144)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: freda underhill

Can you imagine the pandemonium on that ark? Like a bunch of wild animals suddenly became domesticated and walked in quiietly in pairs, sitting neatly at their space in the corner?

and like the humans running the show escaped without a scratch? or weren't digested at some point in the first couple of hours by various animals (with or without nostrils)?

05 Feb 05 - 05:35 PM (#1400146)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Peace

Who's ark WAS it?

05 Feb 05 - 05:35 PM (#1400147)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST

Noah did a runner at the last minute. Fear of water apparently. Little known fact that Moses stood in for him. Ok thanks Brucie!

05 Feb 05 - 05:42 PM (#1400152)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST,the Ark of knowledge

No, It was Archimedes.

Archimedes' Secret
BBC Two 9.00pm Thursday 14 March 2002

The text is the only record of work by one of the world's greatest minds - the ancient Greek, Archimedes - a mathematical genius centuries ahead of his time. Hidden for a millennium in a middle eastern library, it has been written over, broken up, painted on, cut up and re-glued. But in the nick of time scientists have saved the precious, fragile document, and for the first time it is revealing just how revolutionary Archimedes' ideas were. If it had been available to scholars during the Renaissance, we might have reached the Moon over a hundred years ago.

Nearly destroyed

The trail begins in the tenth century, when a scribe made a unique copy of the most important mathematics that Archimedes ever developed. For 200 years the document survived, but the mathematics in it was so complex that no one paid it any attention. So when one day a monk was looking for some new parchment – an expensive commodity at the time – to write a new prayer book, the answer seemed obvious. He used the Archimedes manuscript. He washed the Greek text off the pages, cut them in half, rebound them, and turned the Archimedes manuscript into an everyday prayer book. As he piously wrote out his prayers, he had no idea of the genius he was obliterating.

Several hundred years later, the Renaissance was under way. Scientists were beginning to grapple with new concepts, working out how mathematics could be used to explain the World around them. Little did they know that many of the problems they were just encountering Archimedes had already solved more than a thousand years before. So, tragically, they had to do that research all over again, setting back the development of science and technology immeasurably.

Then in 1906, in Constantinople, the document mysteriously turned up in a monastic library. An opportunistic scholar called Johan Ludwig Heiberg identified the text as Archimedes' writings. Although the Greek text was very faint, Heiberg was able to decipher some of it. What he found astonished him, and made the front page of the New York Times. He revealed that Archimedes' manuscript contained something called 'The Method', which showed not only Archimedes' final proofs, but for the first time revealed the process of how he went about making his discoveries.

But then disaster struck again. World War One broke out and in its aftermath the Archimedes manuscript disappeared.

Scholars had given up any hope of seeing the manuscript again, but in the 1960s odd rumours began to surface that it was to be found in Paris. It took 30 more years, but in 1991 an expert from Christies found it in the hands of a French family. When it reached auction, it was sold to an anonymous millionaire, who has now loaned it to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for conservation.

Although the text is incredibly difficult to read, with state-of-the-art imaging equipment, they are gradually piecing together all of the writing for the very first time. And as the team in Baltimore peel back the glue, leather and centuries of dirt, dissolve the blue-tack and unfold the lines of Greek that are buried in the spine of the book, they are building up a picture of a man who was thousands of years ahead of his time. Not only was Archimedes coming to terms with the profound subject of infinity, he had taken the first crucial steps towards calculus, a branch of mathematics that had to be reinvented after the Renaissance, and which is today used to describe every physical phenomenon from the movement of the planets to the construction of a skyscraper. Who knows what human minds could have achieved if they had only known what Archimedes already knew?

05 Feb 05 - 05:48 PM (#1400155)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Jeri

It was more than 2, but I can't remember how many. 6, maybe. You only really need one earthworm, but they don't take up much space. On the other hand, about a million dung beetles would have come in handy. I'm guessing Noah probably left the fish alone.

05 Feb 05 - 07:42 PM (#1400239)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Bert

how much did a precipice?

probably a torrent.

05 Feb 05 - 08:30 PM (#1400271)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Bee-dubya-ell

There were four musicians. One played the fiddle. One played the pipes. One played guitar. One played drums.

There was something very different about one of them. Who was it?

05 Feb 05 - 09:09 PM (#1400297)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Teresa

The piper played with his mouth?

Here are a couple.

A plane crashed on the border of Canada and the United states. Where were the survivors buried?

A rooster laid an egg on a peaked roof. Which side did the egg roll down?

(Same sort as Moses and the Ark ;) )

Teresa

05 Feb 05 - 09:27 PM (#1400310)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Jeri

Susan, I am so SLOW!
I'm good up to Bee-dubya-ell's. I'm confused because he said there were four musicians. I'm trying to figure out what musical instrument the drummer played. ;-)

05 Feb 05 - 10:48 PM (#1400368)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Bee-dubya-ell

The answer is the guitar player. Why?

05 Feb 05 - 11:01 PM (#1400378)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Peace

The statement in the next post is true.

05 Feb 05 - 11:02 PM (#1400379)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Peace

The statement in the above post is false.

05 Feb 05 - 11:03 PM (#1400380)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Peace

THE STATEMENT IN THE NEXT POST IS FALSE.

05 Feb 05 - 11:03 PM (#1400381)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Peace

THE STATEMENT IN THE ABOVE POST IS FALSE.

05 Feb 05 - 11:17 PM (#1400396)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Bobert

Okay, take five pennies and lay them down in front of you so that they form a "V" meaning that if you were looking at a clock there would be one at the middle of the dial and two where the long hand would be if it were noon and the other two where the long hand would be if you were looking at three o'clock. Got it, so far?

Now, I want you to move one penny, and only one, so that you will have two rows of pennies. One will have 3 pennies in it and the other 4....

Now I'm sure that someone will ahve figured this one out but, fir grins, try it yourself and see how you do...

Bobert

05 Feb 05 - 11:20 PM (#1400399)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Peace

Pass it over here, Bobert. I gotta think.

06 Feb 05 - 12:13 AM (#1400419)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Bert

Drummer doesn't play melody

06 Feb 05 - 12:21 AM (#1400425)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Jeri

Guitar players frequently don't play melody either, but they CAN play chords!

06 Feb 05 - 12:37 AM (#1400436)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Bert

I suppose a Jamaican drummer could play melody though.

06 Feb 05 - 02:40 AM (#1400455)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Bee-dubya-ell

ANSWER - The four musicians are: a drummer, a fiddler and a piper, but a guitarist.

06 Feb 05 - 03:47 AM (#1400466)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Bert

Ha! nice.

06 Feb 05 - 04:33 AM (#1400477)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST,roger the dodger

The drummer can't be classed as a musician.

06 Feb 05 - 10:14 AM (#1400641)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: mack/misophist

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

06 Feb 05 - 03:04 PM (#1400874)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Nigel Parsons

Also, the drummer drummed, the piper piped, the fiddler fiddled & the other fella guitared?

Nigel

06 Feb 05 - 03:32 PM (#1400898)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST,fiddle dee dum

paris
in the
the springtime

what does it say??

06 Feb 05 - 03:48 PM (#1400915)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: wysiwyg

That ark things gets a LOT of people, LOL!

~S~

06 Feb 05 - 04:03 PM (#1400930)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Tobyjug

P P PPP

Then P PPP P

Nobody said the rows had to be straight.

07 Feb 05 - 10:26 AM (#1401512)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie

...Okay, take five pennies and lay them down in front of you so that they form a "V" meaning that if you were looking at a clock there would be one at the middle of the dial and two where the long hand would be if it were noon and the other two where the long hand would be if you were looking at three o'clock. Got it, so far?
At noon, and at 3 o'clock the LONG hand (=minute hand) would point to 12!

Do you mean the SHORT hand?

07 Feb 05 - 11:41 AM (#1401598)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST,Mrr

Imagine you are in a room with 3 switches. In adjacent room there are 3 bulbs, each switch belongs to one bulb, but you don't know which. It is impossible to see from one room to another. How can you find out, which switch belongs to which bulb, if you may enter the room with bulbs only once?

07 Feb 05 - 11:50 AM (#1401609)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Layah

I know the answer! but only because I heard that riddle before and got told the answer, so I won't spoil it for everyone else.

CrazyEddie, I think that that was the point of that brain teaser. I can think of a way to get the correct formation if you pay attention that it is the big hand we're talking about and put the pennies on top of eachother, except that doesn't form a v, but I don't know if that's important. I can't think of any way to accomplish it if it was actually supposed to say little hands.

07 Feb 05 - 12:01 PM (#1401621)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST,mrr

Then there are all the ones of the form, you are at a river with a boat that can carry you plus one other person, other animal, or other thing. One one bank there are three cannibals, three missionaries, and three fried chickens. If you leave more cannibals than missionaries the cannibals will eat the missionaries; if you leave more missionaries than fried chickens the missionaries will eat the fried chickens. How do you get all 9 across? Cannibals don't eat fried chicken, and fried chickens don't eat anything.

07 Feb 05 - 09:11 PM (#1402103)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: JennyO

Cannibal, missionary, fried chicken
Cannibal, missionary, fried chicken
Cannibal, missionary, fried chicken

OR

Leave the boat behind and cross the bridge (you didn't actually SAY there wasn't a bridge, did you?)

08 Feb 05 - 12:49 AM (#1402212)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Layah

That answer was my first thought, but you can't do it that way because then on the opposite side of the bank when you move your second cannibal over the two will eat the one missionary. Unless all this eating threat only applies to one bank of the river.

08 Feb 05 - 01:37 AM (#1402230)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Kaleea

I can play something durn close to the melody on my Bodhran.

08 Feb 05 - 06:01 AM (#1402337)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: JennyO

Oh.

Well, back to the drawing board (sigh)

I still reckon they should use the bridge.

08 Feb 05 - 06:20 AM (#1402346)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: dwditty

Good one Bobert.....take one penny from the top of one V and put it on top of the penny at the bottom of the V

08 Feb 05 - 10:15 AM (#1402508)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST,Mrr

Right, and don't forget YOU have to paddle the canoe, and can only carry ONE thing/person with you at a time.

08 Feb 05 - 10:32 AM (#1402533)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST,observer

Guest,Mrr

The secret is in which ones you bring BACK after the first trip.

08 Feb 05 - 10:58 AM (#1402556)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Susu's Hubby

Three men walk into a hotel. The clerk tells them that the room will cost $30. Each man puts $10 on the desk and the clerk hands them a key. After the men go up to their room, the clerk realized that the room should have only been $25. He hands the bellboy five $1 bills and instructs him to explain the situation to the men and give them their change. On the way up, he realizes that he can't split 5 evenly 3 ways, so he pockets two dollars and gives each man a dollar back and tells the men that the room only cost $9.

So if the men ended up paying $9 each for the room and the bell boy pocketed $2, then what happened to the other dollar?

$10 x 3 = 30
$1 back to each man w/bellboy pocketing $2
$9 x 3 = $27 + $2 = $29

Where did it go?

08 Feb 05 - 01:36 PM (#1402704)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: GUEST,Mrr

ooh, I know, I know, pick me, pick MEEE! (but it had to be explained to me then...)
Guest - observer... yes, *I* know (BG)...

08 Feb 05 - 01:44 PM (#1402714)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Chris Green

How do you pronounce this word? "Ghoti".

08 Feb 05 - 02:28 PM (#1402754)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: frogprince

Question # 1:
What kind of fabric thread is produced by worms?

Question # 2:

What do cows drink?

And I know how to pronounce it, Duellingb's, but again because I heard it before, so I won't give it away.

08 Feb 05 - 02:31 PM (#1402759)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: Ebbie

"fish" You may now explain it. *G*

08 Feb 05 - 04:44 PM (#1402936)
Subject: RE: BS: Brain Teasers
From: robomatic

ghoti pronounced 'fish':

'gh' as in 'enough'
'o' as in 'felon'
'ti' as in 'edition'

original idea by George Bernard Shaw