The worlds first riddle!

[size=8]SHRINKING
1. gibbon
2. least weasel
3. bumblebee bat[/size]

P.S. They're only idiots when they don't pull over.

"pull over"

Even if they wear sweaters ! ! !

So, you think you know the mysteries of Engerlish!


1:

The symbol (~) used in many URLs (Web addresses), is called which of the following

ampersand
octothorpe
tittle
tilde


2:

What is the dot over the letter "i" called

dipthong
ampersand
tittle
fitchit


3:

According to the OED, which word has more definitions than any other word in English

by
set
lie
cry


4:

What is a pangram

a piece of writing that uses only one of the vowels
a piece of writing that omits a particular letter
a sentence that reads the same backwards or forwards
a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet


5:

The following sentence is an example of what term "Madam, I'm Adam".

univocalic
rebus
palindrome
lipogram

[size=8]ENGERLISH
1. tilde
2. tittle
3. set
4. a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet
5. palindrome[/size]

Mark:

1. fleeting
2. brother
3. heart
4. D
5. C
6. C

SHRINKING
1. gibbon
2. least weasel
3. bumblebee bat

ENGERLISH
1. tilde
2. tittle
3. set
4. a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet
5. palindrome


First the good news: Mark sets new world record with 14 correct answers in 24 hours.


Bad news: Children laugh and point at me in the street…


Laugh no more…

Let's borrow notation from LaTeX and let "^" denote exponentiation, so that x^2 means "x squared".

Consider the numbers 1233 = 12^2 + 33^2, and 990100 = 990^2 + 100^2.

Is it possible to find an eight-digit number N with the same property, namely that if you break N into two four-digit numbers B and C, and add their squares, you recover N


(N really has to have eight digits; its leading digit is not zero. B is the number formed by the first our digits of N, and C is the number formed by the last four digits of N.)



Size matters!

Q 4:

At this size, insects look big enough to be a threat to you. Which of the following is NOT an insect

Roach
Louse
Tick
Flea


Q 5:

Oops! You just got a lot smaller and fell into a drop of water. You can just barely see single-celled organisms all around you. Like you, they seem to be moving around at random. What effect is causing this erratic movement

Brownian Motion
Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Newton's Laws of Inertia
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Priniciple


Q 6:

Soon you are small enough to make out the individual shapes of the micro-organisms that share your tiny world. There goes one with a long, whip-like tail that it uses to move along. What is it

Trypanosome gambiense
Paramecium aurelia
Amoeba proteus
Plasmodium falciparum



Swimming is not a sport; swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

Q4 fleas have eight legs therefore not an insect.

Q5 Brownian motion..... except that temparature differentials act on the water molecules to increase/ decrease pressure on the single celled creature. So newtons law of inertia has a role here. (I think?)

Q6 Trypanosome gambiense watch out for this one its nasty

Swimming is not a sport? tell that to the "Thorpedo"

There are 3 reasons Australians produces graet swimmers. Bull sharks, Tiger sharks, and Great Whites.
more people die from elephant attacks than shark attacks!

[size=8]EIGHT-DIGIT NUMBER
94122353 (it's unique)[/size]

Eeeek! That was supposed to keep you occupied all day, not just breakfast.


Mark's happiness is proportional to the function w2*c (w squared * c), where w stands for daily consumption of glasses of wine, and c stands of daily consumption of number of cigars. Wine costs $3 a glass and cigars cost $2 each. His daily budget for both is $100.

How should he divide his money between wine and cigars to maximize his happiness

Assume he does not have to buy integer numbers of either cigars or wine.

[size=8]HAPPINESS
two thirds wine, one third cigars[/size]

Eeep! Arrrgh!


One morning is starts to snow at a constant rate. Later, at 6:00am, a snow plow sets out to clear a straight street. The plow can remove a fixed volume of snow per unit time, in other words its speed it inversely proportional to the depth of the snow. If the plow covered twice as much distance in the first hour as the second hour.

What time did it start snowing

[size=8]FOUR BALLS / URN
9 (via simulation)[/size]

Eeep! Arrrgh! Mawwwwahh! :wink:

As I don't know how to draw this; imagine 4 matchsticks forming a glass in the shape of a straight sided Y, with a horizontal bar. Like a goalpost.
The olive 'o' is inside the glass.

Move two of these matches so that the olive is outside the martini glass. The shape of the glass must remain unaltered.



IoI
.T


The dot is for space only.

I hope you publish the proper way to solve the urn/balls problem. Creating a state machine was easy, but I don't know how to turn that into an expression (infinite series).

"Mark, could you please explain how you moved from/to:

react
nectar

With one move/change ?"

I added an n. Based on the example, rearrangement seems legit. I suspect the rules are not clearly defined.

[size=8]COINS IN BOX
2/3[/size]

Oh no. I thought you would come up with something else.


I seem to have a problem trying to simplify the following: :wink:

sqrt ( 3 - sqrt 5 ) + sqrt ( 4 + sqrt 7 ) + sqrt ( 6 - sqrt 35 )

Any offers


Remember this?

A man leaves his office every day at 5:00, takes the commuter train and arrives at his hometown depot at 6:00. His wife arrives at the depot at 6:00, in their car, and drives him home. This is everyday procedure.

One day, he leaves his office at 4:00 instead of the usual 5:00, neglects to inform his wife, and arrives at the depot at 5:00 instead of 6:00. He decides to walk home. On the way home he meets his wife, who is driving to pick him up at the usual 6:00. He gets in the car, they drive home and arrive 20 minutes earlier than usual.

How long, in minutes, did he walk

[size=8]COMMUTER
50 minutes

Q7: Dysentary
Q8: Methanol[/size]

[size=8]SIMPLIFY
3.74165738677394
:wink:
Whadaya know? If you square the number above, you get 14.[/size]