Daily Brain Teaser for 12/31/2012

Everyone knows that both Christmas Day and New Year's Day always fall on the same day of the week. However, in 1939, the year of the outbreak of World War II, Christmas fell on a Monday and New Year's fell on a Sunday. Why?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/28/2012

What are these?

1st January 2010 800 x 600 pixels
1st January 2011 1280 x1024 pixels
1st January 2012 1600 x 1200 pixels
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/27/2012

New Years Quiz

1. What is the most common New Year’s resolution made by people in the United States?

2. What popular New Year’s custom helps ensure a good relationship and affection throughout the New Year?

3. Richard Wagstaff, born on November 30th, 1929 is better known by what name?

4. In what movie did Debbie Reynolds dance with a very inebriated Fred Astaire on New Year’s Eve?

5. What parade is held each year on New Year’s Day?

6. In “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year,” who was the voice of Father Time?

7. What day marks the beginning of the New Year for followers of the Jewish religion?

8. What is the translation of the title of the traditional New Year’s song “Auld Lang Syne”?

9. Though Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote “Auld Lang Syne,” who made it the most popular New Year’s song in the U.S.?

10. Which city hosts the first major New Year’s Eve celebration in the world each year?

11. What symbolic New Year’s character is often adorned with a top hat and sash?

12. At what time does the New Year’s Eve ball begin its descent in Time’s Square?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/26/2012

These words belong to the same logical family:
CALCIFEROUS
CUPELLATION
EDUCATION
LACTIFEROUS
OUTDISTANCE
PNEUMONIA

Which of these words does too?
ZYMOTICALLY
ABSTEMIOUS
UNAPOSTOLIC
MEDALLION
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/24/2012

I can help with special occasions,
Birthdays, Christmas, all celebrations.
You need scissors and sticky tape,
Brains and fingers.
Make sure you have something inside of it.
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/21/2012

I have been called many names,
through the course of years.
I may have been a real person,
but I always bring lots of cheers.

I am known all over the world,
and I come on a winter's night,
to spread joy and holiday spirit,
and to set children's faces right.

If you still don't know my name,
just read on a little more,
I live in a house on top of the world,
and little children I adore.

Who am I?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/20/2012

Alan Greenspan loves Christmas, but when he goes caroling, no one understands what he's saying. Can you decipher what Christmas lyric he's crooning?

"I am currently indulging in a fantasy concerning a profundity of hexagonal crystals of dihydrogen monoxide upon the Yuletide."
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/19/2012

Brain Teasers - Books and more...

I have, in a sense, everlasting life.
My brothers grow old and brittle while I stay ripe.
I am greatly appreciated and adorned with jewels,
and my head has a crown, it's beautiful.
For most of my life I have braved cold, or heat,
but where I am taken it's always warm,
But my fame cannot last.
The jewels are taken off, along with my crown,
and I am shunned until my successor arrives
in one year.
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/18/2012

Help Beethoven use these clues below to decipher these popular Christmas/Holiday tunes.
Example: A Triad of Monarchs
Answer: We Three Kings

1. Shiny grey chimes
2. Cherubim from areas of splendor
3. O petite metropolis where Jesus was born
4. The infant Saint Nick
5. It occurred on the bewitching hour
6. Chant we now of Jesus's birthday!
7. One little newborn
8. Seraphim we have perceived on elevation
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/17/2012

Fictional Christmas Characters

Think about all the interesting fictional characters that are part of the Christmas season as you decode this cryptogram list.

LXAGGYD
AQMGBVE
UAL.   XBKQL
SNOW  SNU
SEADD   TADOXE   EDOL
SED   YANOXE
XEKABND   HAGJO
YDGAYD  HKNBDW
MKLEDA
TAGLSW  SED  LOGJUKO
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/14/2012

Each of the Johnson brothers has as many sisters as he has brothers. Each of the Johnson sisters has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the Johnson family?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/13/2012

Tom is older than Sue, and Sue is younger than Mary, who is older than Tom. Who is the oldest of the three?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/12/2012

Homonyms are words that sound alike, though they are spelled differently. (Example: to, two, too) One pair of homonyms has meanings that are precisely opposite, and need not be stretched. What are the two spellings of this homonym?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/11/2012

Brain Teasers - Books and more...

My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whether I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you or me.
But if my head should be cut off,
The matter's true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change.
What am I?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/10/2012

Four people can sit at a table in twenty-four different arrangements. How many arrangements are possible for seating eight people?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/7/2012

A man driving through the woods hit a rabbit. Quickly stopping his car he pours a bottle of liquid over the rabbit. The rabbit jumps up and walks back into the woods waving goodbye all the way. What was in the bottle?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/6/2012

It's All About Years

1. What happened in the middle of the twentieth century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?

2. What occurs four times in every week, twice in every month, only once in a year but never in a day?

3. What year comes next in this sequence:
1973, 1979, 1987, 1993, 1997, 1999, _____
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/5/2012

Two Series Puzzles

1. What are the next two letters in the following series and why?

W A T N T L I T F S _ _

2. What letter is next in the series?

U, D, T, C, C, S, S?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/4/2012

Brain Teasers - Books and more...
I know what my job is,
The point has been made.
You say I have a big head,
And you're right, I'm afraid.
Put me in my place,
And then leave me alone.
What I need most,
Is someone to drive me home.
What am I?
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Daily Brain Teaser for 12/3/2012

Think of words ending in 'gry'. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."
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From the list of special days (below), only 5 occur in the month of December.
Do you know which ones they are?

1. BOXING DAY
2. THANKSGIVING
3. NEW YEAR'S EVE
4. HOLI
5. SHORTEST DAY
6. ST PATRICK'S DAY
7. YOM KIPPUR
8. ST STEPHEN'S DAY
9. EID-UL-ADHA
10. NEW YEAR'S DAY
11. FATHER'S DAY
12. GOOD FRIDAY
13. LONGEST DAY
14. CHRISTMAS DAY
15. SHROVE TUESDAY
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