Brain Busters - A Trivia Game

[amal81 3]

[gggg 9]

no...this triangle is not possible

 

[Eastwinn 6]

Amal, just go ahead and try to make that shape... Anyway, Amal got the bonus for 15 points and gggg got the regular teaser for 5.

Scores:

Voar Tok - 10

GCP - 5

amal81 - 25

Slowhand - 5

Alabaster - 10

gggg - 5

 

Next Teaser:

 

If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?

 

When you guys figure out the answer, your going to hate yourself. Oh, and amal, try figuring out this pattern for no extra points: 1;1;2;4;8;16;____;____. Ha! You have no idea do you! Muhahahah!

[Slowhand 0]

The match silly!

[Eastwinn 6]

Obviously!

Scores:

Voar Tok - 10

GCP - 5

amal81 - 25

Slowhand - 10

Alabaster - 10

gggg - 5

 

Next Teaser:

 

During a recent police investigation, Chief Inspector Stone was interviewing five local villains to try and identify who stole Mrs Archer's cake from the mid-summers fayre. Below is a summary of their statements:

Arnold:  it wasn't Edward

         it was Brian

Brian:   it wasn't Charlie

         it wasn't Edward

Charlie: it was Edward

         it wasn't Arnold

Derek:   it was Charlie

         it was Brian

Edward:  it was Derek

         it wasn't Arnold

It was well known that each suspect told exactly one lie. Can you determine who stole the cake?

[Slowhand 0]

This is hard. Was it Derek?

No wait, it couldn't have been Derek. Then where would the others go? I think there is a technique to do this with a chart. I have to go to church for now, so I'll think about it.


It couldn't be Edward, he wasn't in any part of it, Derek would mess up the order.......

[Duke87 1,070]

Date: 10/30/2005 11:01:12 AM Author: Eastwinn

 Oh, and amal, try figuring out this pattern for no extra points: 1;1;2;4;8;16;____;____. Ha! You have no idea do you! Muhahahah!

The next two numbers are 32 and 64. All you're doing is adding all the previous numbers in the string to the present one to get the next one. This in essence means you're just doubling, only with an extra 1 at the beginning.

 

Oh, and Charlie stole the Cake

[Eastwinn 6]

Yes, Charlie stole the cake.

Scores:

Voar Tok - 10

GCP - 5

amal81 - 25

Slowhand - 10

Alabaster - 10

gggg - 5

Duke87 - 5

 

Next Teaser:

 

In the olden days, a man rode into town on his horse. He arrived on Monday, spent six days in town and left on Friday. How is that possible?

[dhoppeii 12]

Friday was the name of his horse.

[Eastwinn 6]

You make it seem like that was so easy. Well my head hurt trying to solve that sucker.

 

Scores:

Voar Tok - 10

GCP - 5

amal81 - 25

Slowhand - 10

Alabaster - 10

gggg - 5

Duke87 - 5

dhoppeii - 5

 

  Next Teaser:

 

    You can imagine an arrow in flight, toward a target. For the arrow to reach the target, the arrow must first travel half of the overall distance from the starting point to the target. Next, the arrow must travel half of the remaining distance.

For example, if the starting distance was 10m, the arrow first travels 5m, then 2.5m.

If you extend this concept further, you can imagine the resulting distances getting smaller and smaller. Will the arrow ever reach the target?

 

Something cool:

 

What one letter does this paragraph not have?:

 

Study this paragraph and all things in it. What is vitally wrong with it? Actually, nothing in it is wrong, but you must admit that it is most unusual. Don't just zip through it quickly, but study it scrupulously. With luck you should spot what is so particular about it and all words found in it. Can you say what it is? Tax your brains and try again. Don't miss a word or a symbol. It isn't all that difficult?

 

If you figure out what the letter that paragraph does not contain, I'll give you say 2 or 3 points.

 

[dhoppeii 12]

The result of the equation would be infinity and I believe the answer to the bonus question is E.

[Eastwinn 6]

OK, you now have earned 8 points (3 + 5).

Scores:

Voar Tok - 10

GCP - 5

amal81 - 25

Slowhand - 10

Alabaster - 10

gggg - 5

Duke87 - 5

dhoppeii - 13

 

Next Teaser:

 

This one 'll make your head hurt! Is the following statement true or false:

 

This statement is false

 

 

 

[Duke87 1,070]

We call that a pardaox. It's neither true nor false.

It can't be true, because if it were, it'd have to be false. And it can't be false, since if it were, it would have to not be false. What's perhaps more interesting is that if you say This statement is true, there's no issue. It's just true. All this is is a slight variation on a classic:

 

The following statement is true:

The previous statement is false.

 

NEXT!

[gggg 9]

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Duke.....Im impresed

[Eastwinn 6]

Yeah, Duke pretty much destroyed it. I have also seen that variation, not as cool as the first one though.

Scores:

Voar Tok - 10

GCP - 5

amal81 - 25

Slowhand - 10

Alabaster - 10

gggg - 5

Duke87 - 10

dhoppeii - 13

 

This sucker 'll hurt you:

 

Five men, whose names are Bob Edison, Tom Stevenson, Marty Brown, Jim Davis, and John Alberts were being questioned by the police for a crime committed in their local golf house.

Other detectives have already investigated, they have questioned the suspects, the witnesses, and people who know the suspects and they have collected physical evidence from the crime scene. They have collected the following 14 clues, but have not been able to solve the crime. Therefore, they have called in the world's greatest detective: YOU, who must now examine the clues and solve the crime for them and find the culprit.

No two suspects have the same hair color, weight, height, wife's first name, or colour shoes.

The suspect who has red hair weighs 140 pounds.

Bob Edison is 5 feet 3 inches tall.

The culprit has a wife named Mary.

The suspect who weighs 150 pounds is not the one who is 5 feet 9 inches tall.

The suspect who has a wife named Pam is not the one who has blonde hair.

Jim Davis was wearing orange shoes.

John Alberts has black hair.

The suspect who has a wife named Betty weighs 200 pounds.

Tom Stevenson weighs 210 pounds.

The suspect who weighs 200 pounds has no hair.

The suspect who has a wife named Cathy weighs 140 pounds.

Marty Brown has brown hair.

The suspect who has black hair has a wife named Mary.

The suspect who has no hair is not the one who was wearing orange shoes.

[Duke87 1,070]

This is a case where the answer is fairly simple, but hidden among a lot of superfluous information. The following clues are the only necessary ones:

 

-No two suspects have the same hair color, weight, height, wife's first name, or colour shoes.

-The culprit has a wife named Mary.

-The suspect who has black hair has a wife named Mary.

-John Alberts has black hair.

 

So it was john Alberts.

[Eastwinn 6]

Yet again...

Scores:

Voar Tok - 10

GCP - 5

amal81 - 25

Slowhand - 10

Alabaster - 10

gggg - 5

Duke87 - 15

dhoppeii - 13

 

Next!:

 

This multiplication contains the numbers 1-9. Can you complete it?

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  3* x

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[jglei701 8]

 

  186

   39  x

7254

 

[Eastwinn 6]

Haven't updated this thing in a while. Well jglei701 got the last one, welcome to the game:

Scores:

Voar Tok - 10

GCP - 5

amal81 - 25

Slowhand - 10

Alabaster - 10

gggg - 5

Duke87 - 15

dhoppeii - 13

jglei701 - 5

 

A teaser I know that Duke will get:

 

Who is your father's only son's brother's uncle's wife's daughter's brother's father's son?

 

It's simpler then you think

[amal81 3]

That would be me!

[Duke87 1,070]

He is nonexistant. Why? Well...

father's only son's brother's

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You can stop right there. While my father's only son would be me, If I'm his only son, I can't have a brother!

So it's yet another one that's amazingly simple but that someone who isn't observant wouldn't catch right away.

 

Come on now, give me something harder!

[Eastwinn 6]

Yeah, I knew you would get that.

Scores:

amal81.........25

Duke87.........20

dhoppeii.......13

Voar Tok.......10

Slowhand.......10

Alabaster......10

gggg............5

GCP.............5

jglei701........5

 

Might of been writen by Einstein:

 

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.

The Swede keeps dogs as pets.

The Dane drinks tea.

The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.

The green house owner drinks coffee.

The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.

The Norwegian lives in the first house.

The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.

The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.

The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.

The German smokes Prince.

The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

 

 

[Slowhand 0]

Haha, might have been written by Einstein?


Anyways, shouldn't It be the German? It seems to my knowledge correct.

Swede was my other guess.

[Eastwinn 6]

Right Slowhand

Scores:

amal81.........25

Duke87.........20

Slowhand.......15

dhoppeii.......13

Voar Tok.......10

Alabaster......10

gggg............5

GCP.............5

jglei701........5

 

This one is hard but yet so simple:

 

Name an ancient invention, which is still used in some parts of the world today, that allows people to see through walls.

[Duke87 1,070]

Date: 11/21/2005 8:23:02 AM Author: Eastwinn

Name an ancient invention, which is still used in some parts of the world today, that allows people to see through walls.

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How about a window?

[JohnB 66]

Yea a window or just glass.

[hym 358]

How about a hole in the wall?

[Fairlane500 8]

Possibly a peephole?

[Eastwinn 6]

Duke got it... Again...

 

Scores:

amal81.........25

Duke87.........25

Slowhand.......15

dhoppeii.......13

Voar Tok.......10

Alabaster......10

gggg............5

GCP.............5

jglei701........5

 

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Three people check into a hotel. They pay

[jglei701 8]

The money is all there.  The flaw is in the way that the problem is approached.  Instead of the hotel costing $30, it costs $25.  So the men are given $5 in change.  $1 goes to each man, and $2 goes to the bellboy.

$25+$1+$1+$1+$2=$3-