DOUBT : CONVICTION
Which two words below have the same relationship as the two words above?
A. FAULTLESS : EXEMPLARY
B. FASTIDIOUS : SLENDER
C. COURAGE : RESOLUTION
D. INSTINCT : CONSTANCY
E. ROUTINE : ABNORMAL
Ken is half again as old as Phil, who is half again as old as David. Their ages total 152. How old are they?
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~AYOSSE NDVHYS
Move from letter to connecting letter to spell out a nine-letter word.
T E R ? D E E ? F
Each of the following is an anagram of a form of transportation, except one. What are the anagrams and which is the odd one out?
A. RAIL REIN
B. NOD GOAL
C. OLD PEAR
D. AIM LOO TUBE
E. CARVE FORTH
What number is next in the following sequence?
0 1 5 14 30 ??
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~NMSSD VQGX WAZMG
The faces of a die are marked with the numbers 1, 2, and 3 (writing each number twice). The die was put on a table. Four people sat around the table so that each one was able to see three sides of the dice at a glance. Let's call them Abe, Babe, Cabe, and Dave.
Here is what each one was looking at:
Abe sees the number 1 plus two even numbers.
Babe sees two number 2's.
Cabe and Dave both see three different numbers each.
What numbers are they each looking at?
What number is face down on the table?
Find a six letter word made up of only the following four letters.
E L T Y
Find two words with different spellings, but sound alike that mean:
RESIDUE / FORCE AWAY
There are one thousand lockers and one thousand students in the school. The principal asks the first student to go to every locker and open it. Then he has the second student go to every second locker and close it. The third goes to every third locker and, if it is closed, he opens it, and if it is open, he closes it. The fourth student does this to every fourth locker, and so on. After the process is completed with the thousandth student, how many lockers are open?
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~LDPPIPDN CDXENWDA
What word goes with: AGE PORT ABLE WORD
A. LIKE
B. OVER
C. KIND
D. ARM
E. MAN
Why?
Move from letter to letter to find a 9 letter word and its missing letters.
A T E ? ? M A N E
In a game of 12 players that lasts for exactly 75 minutes, there are 6 reserves who alternate equally with the starting players. It means that all players, including reserves, are in the game for exactly the same amount of time. How long is this?
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Complete the two words using the letters of the following once only.
IDLING TURN
_A__T_E_ _A__T_E_
CRISIS (PRAISE) SPREAD
Following the same rules as above, what word should go in the brackets?
REPOSE (______) ARENAS
What number should replace the question mark?
5 15 9 6 16 8 4 ? 9
Solve the clue in column 1, add the letter in the center and rearrange the letters to solve the clue in the second column.
1. Kennedy matriarch H Cowboy's ride 2. Repair I Dug for ore 3. Against G Goliath was one 4. More inferior H Quick rain 5. Prevaricated A Utopian 6. Army bugle call N Trousers 7. Bride's face cover D Satan 8. Rounded mountaintop L Cindy Crawford 9. Squalid bar O Movie tape 10.Grows weary W Corresponds
Solve the following cryptograms using the same letter substitutions for each word.
Clue: Battery powered
ZBZHMKVUWH NLTZ
HLTZKL
CVKMLEBZ KLGWV
BLUMZKU
OTVSZ LBLKT
KZTVMZ HVUMKVB
DBLOXBWNXM
HLBHPBLMVK
MLBSWUN MVQ
GVVKEZBB
By 8:00 pm, all the guests had arrived. By 8:30 pm, one-third of them had left. By 9:30 pm, one-third of those remaining had also departed. By 11:00 pm, the same had happened again, and one-third of those remaining had gone. After this, only 16 guests remained. How many guests were at the party at 8:00 pm?
What 5 letter word can be placed in front of each of the following words to form five new words or phrases?
UP
TRIP
ABOUT
SHOULDERED
NUMBER
What number should be next in the following sequence?
119 108 99 81 72 ??
What 3 letter word can be placed in front of the other five to form five new words?
NOT
TEEN
NON
TON
DID
Drop the correct letters onto the blanks below to form a quotation. X's are spaces between words.
D C I D E S C A E E B E E D E B H A A N B E S I N E E T H E N S O L L S I S T C I N D I M O N I T T R O U T R Q U S Y I N U S Y R R R W W R T O S X _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ X _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ X _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ X
The answers to the following clues are two words that rhyme. The numbers in parentheses represent the word lengths.
1. Simian with moxie (6,6)
2. Selected stockings (5,4)
3. Lacking four cups (5,5)
4. Component of farm machinery (7,6)
5. Mantel sprite (5,3)
6. Jump over the flock (4,5)
7. Spray cake mixture (8,6)
8. Dread of a Shakespearean king (4,4)
9. Where a witch parks her vehicle (5,4)
10. Show your money (5,4)
Follow the directions to discover the answer.
1. Print the words BUFFET DINNER, omitting the space.
2. Change the F's to A's.
3. Insert an M in the middle position.
4. Change the N's to A's.
5. Reverse the order of the last nine letters.
6. Change the I to an R.
7. Insert an L to the left of the first consonant.
8. Move the first A to the end.
9. Insert an H to the right of the first E.
10. Change the B to a P.
11. Move the first vowel to the end.
12. Delete the second vowel.
13. Insert an L beween the last two vowels.
14. Delete the third consonant.
15. Switch the second and third letters.
16. Delete the last vowel.
17. Insert Z between the double A's.
18. Delete the next to the last consonant.
Four members (Erin, Riva, Toby & Warren) of an evening seminar on the novels of Virginia Woolf prepared short talks on four different novels, "Mrs. Dalloway", "To the Lighthouse", "The Waves" and "The Years". Each talk focused on a different aspect of the literature: expectations, time, sentence structure or women and men. Using the clues below, discover each student's chosen novel and the aspect on which each student focused. (Hint: Enter the facts into a chart.)
1. Toby (who didn't discuss "The Years") didn't focus on sentence structure or time.
2. Warren discussed "To the Lighthouse".
3. Erin focused on relationships between women and men.
4. Riva (who didn't discuss "The Waves" or "The Years") didn't focus on sentence structure.