Karmi-Sempai
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Post by Karmi-Sempai on May 13, 2006 1:21:14 GMT -5
Hey there! Karmi-Sempai here!
Here's a bunch of brainteasers I found from the Fourth Series of Ripley's Believe It or Not!
1) What is older than its mother? No, it's not its grandmother!
2) What runs faster uphill than downhill?
3) What English word contains the names of seven heathen gods in order?
4) If a bank borrows money at 4% and lends it out at 6%, what is the percentage of its profit?
5) If it takes a clock two seconds to strike two, how many seconds will it take to strike four?
6) A dealer in Norfolk, England, having to ship 100 herring found that he had only 99 in stock. How many was he short?
7) What drink would cost $450000000 per pint?
8) Which two-letter word can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, and preposition?
9) When is 1/3 and 1/3 equal to 5?
10) Give a number that is when multiplied to itself, it results to 1234567887654321.
11) What is the simplest way of doubling 4210526315789473687?
12) How old are you when you are born to the Orangsakya tribe?
13) What are the longest English words without a looped letter either above or below the line?
14) What is so unusual about a fly from the Kerguelen Island?
15) How can you change 0, which means nothing, to 11000 in Roman notation without adding anything?
16) What two numbers give the same result when they are multiplied or subtracted?
17) What are nature's blue-blooded creatures?
18) What is the capacity of a cop?
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Post by ~*_The Case Is Closed_*~ on May 13, 2006 21:43:28 GMT -5
well, I think number 9 should be when 5 equals 2/3... and 16, do you mean like different numbers, or could it be 0 and 0? 17, possibly everything that has blood, because it is colored blue before it is oxygenated, or something like that, I don't pay very close attention in science, but enough...
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Post by *~NiCkY~* on May 14, 2006 8:51:36 GMT -5
where can i see the answers to those questions?
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Post by Tracy on May 14, 2006 21:38:06 GMT -5
@ thecaseisclosed:Actually, humans don't have blue blood (Question 7). There's already oxygen in our blood, therefore, blood is red, when it interacts with outside oxygen, no more reactions occur except the fact that blood freezes a bit. Our veins are blue because its the color of veins that's all. Your head goes red when blood goes to it (i.e.: Hang upside down; blushing). There, you can't have blue blood. I've heard of it, but I doubt that it's true. Got a reliable source, then I'll believe ya. Hm... now I'm not even sure of myself. Sorry for spamming. I just had to say that.
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Post by konstantine on Jun 3, 2006 1:00:11 GMT -5
I do not know the majority of those answers, for I am lazy and do not wish to tease my brain, but I can tell you that blood is technically blue until it is exposed to oxygen...(If this is also considered spamming, I apologize)
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Post by Mizuhara on Jun 10, 2006 2:13:35 GMT -5
1. sequence: 1 4 7 2 3 5 6
where does the number 9 belong? top or bottom?
2. name a substance that weighs less in solid form than in its liquid form
3. a new science teacher says that he can put a beaker in the science lab and crawl into it. HOW
4. you threw away the outside and cooked the inside. then you ate the outside and composted the inside...what did you eat?
5.this is the most unsual paragraph. it looks ordinary that you think nothing is wrong with it, nothing is..so whats so unusual about it?
6.It's impossible to survive longer than 7 day without water. yet maia crossed the desert in ten days without finding or taking any...how?
7. sometimes 2 added to eleven to get one...how?
8. how can you physically standing behind your friend while she is standing behind you at the same time
9. theres a seven letter word in english that contains 10 words without rearranging the letters...what is the word..
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Post by ~*_The Case Is Closed_*~ on Jun 10, 2006 11:07:27 GMT -5
would #2 be water, because as in ice form, it floats in regular water? #5- Well there are no e's in the paragraph.... #6- Is Maia a camel?
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Karmi-Sempai
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Post by Karmi-Sempai on Aug 2, 2006 2:04:48 GMT -5
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I'll still have to find the book again to provide the answers. I don't wanna send a half-baked work.
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Karmi-Sempai
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Post by Karmi-Sempai on Aug 2, 2006 2:11:26 GMT -5
Hey there! Karmi-Sempai here!
Yes, I've read so many books on Anatomy 'cause that's my favorite branch in Science. I specifically always read on the Circulatory System 'cause I'm still trying to solve the mystery of why Jun Misugi, this character from Captain Tsubasa, has cardiac disease at the age of maybe... ten? I haven't found a break yet. He's the most unlikely candidate for it.
Anyway, yes blood is blue in the veins because it becomes deprived of oxygen in contrary to the red blood in your arteries. When you have a cut, oxygen is mixed with the blood to turn it red again. I'm a geek...
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Post by Dragonfang on Sept 1, 2006 17:34:07 GMT -5
15) How can you change 0, which means nothing, to 11000 in Roman notation without adding anything?
I think you write it out was "zero" and rearrange the lines to make the 11000 in roman notation? ^_^" just a try.
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Post by Mizuhara on Sept 2, 2006 2:59:48 GMT -5
13) What are the longest English words without a looped letter either above or below the line?
smiles [i think...there is a "mile" b/w the first and the last letter.
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Karmi-Sempai
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Post by Karmi-Sempai on Oct 28, 2006 0:28:37 GMT -5
Hey there! Karmi-Sempai here!
Sorry I haven't been around for a long time! I was busy with deviantART all this time and considering my Internet time, I don't have much chances!
First of all, I'd like to thank you guys for trying to solve the brainteasers. Unfortunately, nobody got anything right.
Second, I don't mind the spamming. I'm here to learn more! I'm just a scribbling kid going around websites. I consider myself as a big kid in the playground. Thanks for the info, though! I need to refresh my memory on anatomy!
Here are the answers you've been waiting for!
1) Saltpeter. It's derivative is known as "Mother of Saltpeter." I don't intend to understand this one but I hope you guys do!
2) A forest fire
3) PANORAMA (PAN, ANO, NO, RA, RAMA, AMA)
4) 50%
5) Six seconds
6) 33. In Norfolk, a hundred hering means 132.
7) Tritium. It's triple heavy water used in the making of the hydrogen bomb.
8) BY
9) In music, a major third plus a minor third is equal to a perfect fifth.
10) 11,111,111
11) Just put the last digit in front!
12) When you're born, you're considered 60 years old! Every year, your age will diminish. If you live longer, you'll be given an extra ten years to finish off.
13) RECONNAISSANCE and CONCESSIONAIRE
14) It has no wings!
15) Put a dash resulting in รด!
16) 19-.95=18.05 19x.95=18.05
17) The crab, snail, worm and clam!
18) A cop is a Scotish unit of measurement equivalent to two quarts.
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Post by Mizuhara on Oct 29, 2006 3:49:15 GMT -5
i dont get 17...how are these blue blood?!??
and number 4 and 5..someone wanna explain?!?
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