Brain Teaser

[spacesailor]

NO Wonder I couldn't get them .

I'm at the other end of the scale , IQ of 2 .

Boom boom

I missed all my primary learning years . & STARTED school at 8 ish , to learn ABC's .

Algebra is comparative to Esperanto,  seems easy  but not . Metrics has too many 0s ( zeros) to count .

spacesailor

 

 

[facthunter]

What High School did you attend space? Nev

[spacesailor]

I think I started school , 18 month before going to high school.

" what's 1 and 1 '' , " I " , got it straight away 11 .

 whack.

The start of the ' striped arse years ' .

How I wished, a bomb would have taken England's oldest school away .

(  maid Marion went there ) LoL

spacesailor

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[facthunter]

WERE you one of those crooked leg chaps who didn't enough vitamin C? Rickets wasn't it" Do you remember the BLITZ.? .  Nev

[spacesailor]

No , not Rickets. 

I died of " osteomyelitis " 

But

Arose again ' in the morgue ' .

100 children were used to check the effectiveness of ..

Penicillin.  On different diseases. 

I wasn't the only reborn,  as a female has claimed that title .

Death by " chloroform "  anaesthetic is/was common. 

I won't bore you with my recollection of visiting Heaven. 

But ' down there ', has better music, is warmer & you see ' Old friends '.  LoL

spacesailor

 

 

[onetrack]

Spacey, I'm curious as to how you could have seen "old friends", as a child who had left this life?

[spacesailor]

Growing up in hospitals for many years . with '' faceless '' airmen , legless , armless . many must have departed for their second life ,

spacesailor

[red750]

What common article of clothing can be fitted in the spaces below to form another word?
P  A  R  _  _  _  S
 

[pmccarthy]

Tie

[red750]

Correct.    P  A  R  T  I  E  S

[red750]

The beginning of summer, the middle of Christmas and the end of the holidays have one thing in common. What is it?

[pmccarthy]

S

[red750]

Going well, Pete.

 

Eric the zookeeper’s favourite photo shows him with his six cows, three spiders, four ostriches,  five elephants, and one giant tortoise. How many legs are in the photograph?

[Marty_d]

82

[facthunter]

The Photo doesn't have to include them.>   Nev

[red750]

Correct Marty. You're thinking too hard Nev.

[facthunter]

I think you are right. but not all men have 2 feet . Nev

[red750]

If the below are true….
1 = 5
2 = 27
3 = 125 
4 = 1000
What does 5 equal?
 

[pmccarthy]

5=1, you told us at the start!

[red750]

That's correct. But under the stress of a TV game show and a 30 second time limit, people try and work out a relationship between the other numbers thrown in to confuse, particularly when there's up to $100,000 at stake, or in the case of the UK version, 100,000 quid.

[red750]

Australian time traveller, Hank, is programming his first time travel journey. The destination date is entered in the format DDMMYYYY. Which of these entries would cause a malfunction?
a. 12341934      b. 13122914     c. 20122012     d.  11112000
 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Hopefully none as a time machine owuld be an advanced bit of kiot, and they hopefully considered someone entering a dud date and not have a breakdown.. Otherwise, a.

[red750]

The questions don't necessarily have to make sense, they just contain clues to answer the question.

 

Yes, the answer is a. There is no month 34.

 

Michael was born on Christmas Day in 2000. How old was he when he proposed to his girlfriend, Laura, on Valentine’s Day in 2022?

[pmccarthy]

One year old. He learned to speak quite early.

[red750]

Try again.