The worlds first riddle!

[size=8]GEYSERS
LCM(94, 720, 35) = 236880 minutes = 3948 hours = 164.5 days[/size]

[size=7]94=2*47
720=2^4*3^2*5
35=5*7
LCM=2^4*3^2*5*7*47=236880
OF=236880/94=2520 eruptions
CaG=329 eruptions
ClG=6768 eruptions
2520=2^3*3^3*5*7
329=7*47
6768=2^4*3^2*47
the set is relatively prime to each other, so 236880 min is minimum.[/size]

329 eruptions of CaG is 164.5 days

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"Must have been during that "conversion" trip to Lesbos."

Someone had to spread the good news!





Mark:

GEYSERS
LCM(94, 720, 35) = 236880 minutes = 3948 hours = 164.5 days



Rap:

94=2*47
720=2^4*3^2*5
35=5*7
LCM=2^4*3^2*5*7*47=236880
OF=236880/94=2520 eruptions
CaG=329 eruptions
ClG=6768 eruptions
2520=2^3*3^3*5*7
329=7*47
6768=2^4*3^2*47
the set is relatively prime to each other, so 236880 min is minimum.

329 eruptions of CaG is 164.5 days







Factoring each of these three numbers,
94 = 2 x 47,
35 = 5 x 7, and
720 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 5.

Hence, the LCM would equal
2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 5 x 7 x 47 or 236,880 minutes.
Dividing by 60 yields 3,948 hours, and dividing by 24 confirms the answer of 164.5 days.



I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give out the wrong answers.




The eight-digit number 23421314 has two 1's, two 2's, two 3's, and two 4's. The two 1's are separated by one digit, the two 2's are separated by two digits, the two 3's are separated by three digits, and the two 4's are separated by four digits.

Now imagine a 14-digit number that contains two 1's, two 2's, two 3's, two 4's, two 5's, two 6's, and two 7's, such that the 1's are separated by one digit, the 2's are separated by two digits, and so on, up to the 7's being separated by seven digits. Actually, there are a few such numbers:

Can you find the highest and lowest of them

Or, any two





What is the etymology of the word agnostic


Greek for 'not known', coined by Thomas Huxley

Latin for 'godless', origin unknown

Norwegian for 'disbeliever', coined by Rev. Lars Findley

Danish for 'procrastinator', first cited by Thor Drogsvold

Is that multiple choice cuz I just came up my own answer???

Gnostic, which comes from Greek gnostikos means "pertaining to knowledge", and the prefix a- means "not".

Is that what you were looking for??? Thomas Huxley did coin the word.

14-digit number:

I have one and it's reverse.

73161345726425
52462754316137

[size=8]14-DIGIT NUMBER
There are 52 solutions including reversals.

The smallest is 14156742352637.
The largest is 74151643752362.[/size]

Shari:

Is that multiple choice cuz I just came up my own answer???

Gnostic, which comes from Greek gnostikos means "pertaining to knowledge", and the prefix a- means "not".

Is that what you were looking for??? Thomas Huxley did coin the word.


You sure iz smart. Are you the same Shari who works in the topless bar across the street?




Stormy:

14-digit number:

I have one and it's reverse.

73161345726425
52462754316137

Wow! Do you know, I never even thought of ?'reverse'!



Mark:

14-DIGIT NUMBER
There are 52 solutions including reversals.

?'How, if I may ask do you know that???'


The smallest is 14156742352637.
The largest is 74151643752362.





What a start to a day; there I was riding on the bus, you know the yellow ones, when; I saw a cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals...

Now the Tallahassee Transit Authority operates a bus line with seven stops -- A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.

Here are some clues about the seven bus stops:
From A to B is 2 miles.
From A to D is 7 miles.
From C to E is 3 miles.
From C to G is 7 miles.
From E to F is 2 miles.
From E to G is 4 miles.

B is 4 miles due southwest of C.
D is 5 miles due southeast of B.
F is 4 miles due northeast of D.
The bus begins its route at A and passes every stop once before returning to A, following the shortest path possible.

Unlike most buses, this one always travels in a straight line between stops, and straight roads exist between every possible pair of bus stops.

If the bus stops at B sometime before it stops at C, in what sequence does the bus pass the stops




From where does the word doctor originate


From the 16th century England word ?'ductor' meaning to heal

From the Latin word ?'docere' meaning teach

From the Dutch word ?'roma' meaning to fix

From the native American word ?'daktar' meaning medicine

I wrote a program to find all solutions.

[size=8]BUS
The path is ABDGFECA.
The distances are 2, 5, sqrt(20), 2, 2, 3, sqrt(20).

A, B, and D are in a straight line. C, E, F, and G are also in a straight line.[/size]

[size=8]DOCTOR
From the Latin word ?'docere' meaning teach.

Daktar appears to be Indian, not native American.

This reminds me of Daktari - a show I watched as a kid.[/size]

Yellow bus (short one, right ) Just joking of course.

Only a guess:
ABDGFECA

I don't have a program to do it. I have to use paper, pencil and my brain. So, that is what came out of my drawing if I understood your question right.
Does effort count?

Mark, "I wrote a program to find all solutions."

You are a national treasure!


Mark:
BUS
The path is ABDGFECA.
The distances are 2, 5, sqrt(20), 2, 2, 3, sqrt(20).

A, B, and D are in a straight line. C, E, F, and G are also in a straight line.

DOCTOR
From the Latin word ?'docere' meaning teach.

Daktar appears to be Indian, not native American. (Velly sorry, mi Apache is a bit rusty)

This reminds me of Daktari - a show I watched as a kid. (Yeah, my grand pappy used to tell me stories about ?'Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion'. I was thinking more along the lines of; Daiquiri)


TTH using her best crayons wrote, "Yellow bus (short one, right)"

The yellow school bus is more than just a vehicle, it is an integrated school transport system. School bus yellow is a color which was especially formulated for use on United States school buses in 1939. The color is now officially known in the U.S. as National School Bus Glossy Yellow and was originally called National School Bus Chrome. In April of that year, Dr. Frank W. Cyr, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York organized a conference that established national school-bus construction standards, including the standard color of yellow for the school bus. It became known officially as "National School Bus Chrome." The color was selected because black lettering on that hue was easiest to see in the semi-darkness of early morning.

The conference met for seven days and the attendees created a total of 44 standards, including specifications regarding body length, ceiling height and aisle width. Paint experts from DuPont and Pittsburgh Paint participated. Dr. Cyr's conference, funded by a $5,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, was also a landmark event inasmuch as it included transportation officials from each of the then 48 states, as well as specialists from school-bus manufacturing and paint companies. The color was adopted by the National Bureau of Standards (Now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) as Federal Standard No. 595a, Color 13432.

'Yes, you were right'.


Only a guess:
ABDGFECA

(A ?'guess' that is correct becomes a scientific fact) :wink:


Does effort count?

(I have only ever met one Count, and he was Swiss. However as he was President of a bank, I am sure the Count can count, but his name was Bill, not Effort.




The Riddles forum decided to have a sexy Spring Break party. The guests Bela, Boris, Elsa, Fay, Lon, Mary, and Vincent (names have been changed to protect the guilty) -

Were dressed (in no particular order) as Dracula, Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Wolf Man, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

From the following, can you determine who wore which costume

1. Boris and Fay played monsters with human alter egos.
2. Lon and Elsa played the monsters of non-European origin.
3. Elsa, Mary, and Vincent played monsters that came back from the dead.
4. Fay and Mary played monsters seen only at night.



Which of the following describes the original meaning of bribe


The alms or the food that one gave to a beggar

The money one gave the tax collector to avoid inspection

The 'bridle bit' pulled to avoid having government officials see the teeth of the horse, and therefore assess the value of the animal

The alms or the food that one gave to a beggar

........final answer.......

[size=7]Mary is Dracula
Fay is the Wolf Man
Elsa is the mummy
Vincent is Frankenstein's Monster
Boris is Mr Hyde
Lon is the creature from the black lagoon
Bela is the invisible man

beggar bribe (n.)
1386, "thing stolen," from O.Fr. "morsel of bread given to beggars," from briber "to beg," a general Romantic word, of uncertain origin. Shift of meaning to "gift given to influence corruptly" is first attested 1535. [/size]

Rap

Shari:

The alms or the food that one gave to a beggar


"........final answer......."

I am sorry you have gotta go, however, if you make parole, do call in.


Rapper:

Mary is Dracula
Fay is the Wolf Man
Elsa is the mummy
Vincent is Frankenstein's Monster
Boris is Mr Hyde
Lon is the creature from the black lagoon
Bela is the invisible man

beggar bribe (n.)
1386, "thing stolen," from O.Fr. "morsel of bread given to beggars," from briber "to beg," a general Romantic word, of uncertain origin. Shift of meaning to "gift given to influence corruptly" is first attested 1535.

Not a lot of people knew that!




Thinking about Shari reminded me of;

The figure below (full rack) depicts the fifteen balls racked up for a game of pool. (Triangle; 5,4,3,2,1)


The balls are numbered from 1 to 15. You (if you accept) must determine the placement of the balls so that the following property is true:

The value of every ball in the bottom four rows is the difference between the values of the two balls immediately above it

Out of the kindness of my heart, balls 1, 2, and 3 have been neatly positioned for you.

03000
.0010
..200
…00
….0



What's the origin of the word typhoon


From the Japanese 'taifu' (Taiwanese wind)

From the Cantonese 'tai fung' (great wind)

From the Greek 'Typhon' (a mythological monster)

I am late but, I did do the monster question. Gosh you were early.

Bela- the Invisible Man
Boris- Mr. Hyde
Elsa- the Mummy
Fay- the Wolf Man
Lon- Creature from the Black Lagoon
Mary- Dracula
Vincent- Frankenstein's Monster

I am only adding them because I read more about monsters than I want to know. Also, Lon & Bela were a toss up so I just guessed on them since I read both the Invisible Man & Creature from the Black Lagoon were of non-European origin ????

Oh and the bribe origin I found back to the mid 1300's. Some I read was to share bread and some said it was of unknown origin.

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10 12 1 8
2 11 7
9 4
5

From typhoon
the modern word represents a coincidence and convergence of at least two unrelated words of similar sound and sense. Tiphon "violent storm, whirlwind, tornado" is recorded from 1555, from Gk. typhon "whirlwind," personified as a giant, father of the winds, perhaps from typhein "to smoke." The meaning "cyclone, violent hurricane of India or the China Seas" (1588) is first recorded in T. Hickock's translation of an account in Italian of a voyage to the East Indies by Cæsar Frederick, a merchant of Venice, probably borrowed from, or infl. by, Chinese (Cantonese) tai fung "a great wind," from tu "big" + feng "wind;" name given to violent cyclonic storms in the China seas. A third possibility is tufan, a word in Arabic, Persian and Hindi meaning "big cyclonic storm" (and the source of Port. tufao), which may be from Gk. typhon but commonly is said to be a noun of action from Arabic tafa "to turn round."[/size]
Rap

Quote TTH, "I am late but…..Gosh you were early."


Yeah! I forgot to take my meds, and in my excitement I arrived too soon!



Bela- the Invisible Man
Boris- Mr. Hyde
Elsa- the Mummy
Fay- the Wolf Man
Lon- Creature from the Black Lagoon
Mary- Dracula
Vincent- Frankenstein's Monster


Nice.


Oh and the bribe origin I found back to the mid 1300's. Some I read was to share bread and some said it was of unknown origin.





Rap:

13 3 15 14 6
10 12 1 8
2 11 7
9 4
5



Nice rack!


From typhoon
the modern word represents a coincidence and convergence of at least two unrelated words of similar sound and sense. Tiphon "violent storm, whirlwind, tornado" is recorded from 1555, from Gk. typhon "whirlwind," personified as a giant, father of the winds, perhaps from typhein "to smoke." The meaning "cyclone, violent hurricane of India or the China Seas" (1588) is first recorded in T. Hickock's translation of an account in Italian of a voyage to the East Indies by Cæsar Frederick, a merchant of Venice, probably borrowed from, or infl. by, Chinese (Cantonese) tai fung "a great wind," from tu "big" + feng "wind;" name given to violent cyclonic storms in the China seas. A third possibility is tufan, a word in Arabic, Persian and Hindi meaning "big cyclonic storm" (and the source of Port. tufao), which may be from Gk. typhon but commonly is said to be a noun of action from Arabic tafa "to turn round."


That is better than my answer.




I went to a smart restaurant this morning that serves ?'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance... I am still waiting.




Take two triangles (back to back)


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ooo
ooo
..o

Place the digits 1 through 8 in the eight carefully drawn circles shown in the diagram, but with this restriction:

No two digits next to each other in serial order may go in circles that are adjacent to each other

(For example, if 2 is placed in the top circle, neither 1 nor 3 may be placed in any of the three circles in the horizontal row beneath it.)

If you are still unsure as how to proceed, may I respectfully suggest you go play on the South America forum, there has not been anything going on there since Feb. Man, it's a desert down there, kinda reminds me of Australia.



RE TINA

..2
685
413
..7

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