Mental Floss
Friday is quiz/test day. That means mental floss.
Here’s todays batch of brain teasers…
- What do reindeer have that no other animals have?
- A house painter paints numbers on all the new houses in a neighborhood from 1-100. How many times does he have to paint the digit 9? (Not a trick. I’m just betting you can’t count.)
- It takes three days to go from A to B, but it takes four days to go from B to A. Why?
- A man is holding a bucket of water (not ice) with no lid. He turns the bucket upside down, but the bucket remains full of water. How come? He is not spinning the bucket, nor is he in space.
- Which doesn’t fit. Seven, Button, Which, Battery, Run, This, Bounce, Is, or That?
- A pen and a bottle of ink cost $1.10. The pen costs exactly $1.00 more than the ink. What does each cost? (Not a trick. I know some of you have math issues.)
If’n you want the answers, you have to go to Brainscramble.com and send me an e-mail.
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(Sung — way off key, and sort of warbley — to the tune of “Oh Christmas Tree.”) I guess we need to talk about the King. On Wednesdays, after we go over the vocabulary homework, and discuss the words, I give them a vocabulary pretest. If they ace it (100%), they are exempt from the vocabulary portion of the Friday test. I used to have one of them flip a coin to decide whether or not I let them use their “cheat sheet” — the homework page we just went over and corrected — on the pretest. What they don’t believe when I tell them — even though it’s true — is that, on average, their scores on the pretest are lower when they use the cheat sheets, and fewer of them get an exemption. But they like to think it’s a security blanket, so I play along. Then I discovered the King. I would give you the URL of his creator’s web site, but he has some other, shall we say, inappropriate shtuff. (You can do a Google search if you really want to check it out.) So I took the liberty of “cloning” the King. If you click [...]
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