| Digging Dirt |
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How much dirt is in a round hole that is 9
feet deep with a diameter of 3 feet? (Hint: You don’t have
to do any math to get the answer. Just use your head!)
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None. You make a hole by digging out the
dirt, so the hole is empty. |
| Time to Tell |
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A sundial is said to be
the timepiece with the fewest moving parts. What is the
timepiece with the most moving parts? |
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An hourglass—filled
with many grains of sand or other granular material.
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| In Common |
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What is the one thing shared by all three items
in the same group?
A
a cow
a shoe
a baby |
B
a doctor's office
a post office
music |
C
a zipper
a shark
a comb |
D
restaurant goer
a bird
the Senate |
E
a potato
a hurricane
a target |
F
a river
a person
a cave |
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A. a tongue
B. a scale (or a key)
C. teeth
D. a bill
E. an eye
F. a mouth
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| Crossing the River |
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Jake was standing on one side of the river,
and his dog Scruffy was standing on the other side. "Come
on Scruffy, come, boy!" shouted Jake. Scruffy crossed the
river, ran to Jake, and got a treat for being a good dog.
The amazing thing was that Scruffy didn't even get wet!
How did Scruffy do that?
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There are two possible answers:
- The river was frozen.
- There was a bridge over the river, and Scruffy
crossed the bridge.
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| Find the Bone |
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Ralph the dog can't remember where he buried
his bone-under the rock, in the garden, under the porch,
or under the tree. If only one of the following sentences
is true, where is Ralph's bone?
- The bone is under the rock.
- The bone is in the garden or under the tree.
- The bone is under the rock or under the porch.
- The bone is not in the garden.
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The bone is in the garden. If
sentence #1 is true, then sentence #3 is also true, but
only one sentence can be true, so both #1 and #3 are false-the
bone is not under the rock or under the porch. That leaves
the garden and the tree, so let's look at sentences #2
and #4. If sentence #2 is true, then sentence #4 is false.
That would leave us with just 1 true sentence, but is
the bone in the garden or under the tree? We know that
sentence #4 is false, so the bone must be in the garden.
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| Mystery Box |
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Cindy, Andy, and Mia, were all over at Keith's
house when a package was delivered. Each child guessed what
was in the box, but only one of them was right. Using their
guesses as clues, can you figure out what was in the box?
Cindy said, "It's a laptop computer." Andy said, "I'll
bet it's a pizza." Mia said, "I think a picture or a laptop
computer is in the box." "It's a picture, for sure," said
Keith.
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A pizza was in the box. Right
away, you can tell that Mia can't be right, because if
she is, then Keith would also be right (they both said
picture), and no more than one child can be right. And
since Mia is wrong, then Cindy is wrong, too, because
they both said laptop computer. That means that Andy is
correct — it's a pizza. |
| Which Way? |
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Once a boy was walking down
the road, and came to a place where the road divided in
two, each separate road forking off in a different direction.
A girl was standing at the fork in the road. The boy
knew that one road led to Lieville, a town where everyone
always lied, and the other led to Trueville, a town where
everyone always told the truth. He also knew that the
girl came from one of those towns, but he didn't know
which one.
Can you think of a question the boy could ask the girl
to find out the way to Trueville?
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The question the boy should
ask is, "Which way is your town?" If the girl
is from Lieville, she will point to Trueville because
she has to lie; if she is from Trueville, she'll point
to Trueville because she has to tell the truth. So whatever
road the girl points to will be the road to Trueville.
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| What's Next? |
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Here are three series of letters. Each letter
in each series is the first letter of a word. The words
in each series are related.
What are the next three letters in each series?
- O, T, T, F, F, . . .
- S, M, T, W, . . .
- D, N, O, S, A, . . .
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- S, S, E (six, seven, eight)
- T, F, S (Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
- J, J, M (July, June, May)
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| Animals in Hiding |
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There is an animal hiding in each sentence
below. Can you find the animals? Example: There's a bee
in "I'll be eleven next month." Hint: You'll have to look
in three words to find some of the animals.
- We can go at six o'clock.
- It's nice to do good deeds.
- Take soap and a towel.
- Most rich people wear fancy clothes.
- You can keep the watch or sell it.
- Use a ladder.
- It will be a rainy day.
- I came late.
- Tell me if I should start now.
- Will a map help you?
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- goat
- dog
- panda
- ostrich
- horse
- seal
- bear
- camel
- fish
- llama
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| Just in Time |
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What occurs once in every minute, twice in
every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
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The letter m |
| Famous Words |
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All the vowels have been removed from the opening
words of a famous American document. So have the breaks
between words. All that are left are the following consonants.
What are the words?
FRSCRNDSVNYRSG
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Four score and seven years ago
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