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Water boiled in a microwave
can suddenly explode!
Here are a few
difficult riddles and brain teasers to exercise that brainpower. You'll find
the solutions at the bottom of the page.
1. You can take
away the whole and still have some left. You can take away some and still
have the whole left. What is it?
2. If a man can
walk 2 miles per hour, and needs nine hours of sleep each day, what is the
fastest he could travel the 3000 miles from New York
to Los Angeles?
3. The thunder
comes before the lightning; the lightning comes before the clouds. The rain
dries everything it touches.
4.
"Duo" is the shortest word with "uo" in it. What is the
longest word you can find with "uo" in it?
There is at least one with 12 letters in it.
5. On a beautiful sunny day in Florida,
a man freezes to death outside. How is this possible?
6. Can you
punctuate the following, in order to make it a proper English sentence?
I said that that that that that man wrote should have been underlined
7. Alex bought
a bag of apples on Saturday, and he ate a third of them. On Sunday he ate
half of the remaining apples. He ate one more on Monday and one more on
Tuesday, then ate half of the remaining apples on Wednesday. On Thursday he
looked in the bag and saw that there was just one apple left. How many apples
did the bag have to begin with?
Solutions To The Riddles And Brain Teasers
1. The word
"wholesome."
2. Just about three
hours in a plane. (Okay, or 100 days walking, but the riddle didn't specify
that he was walking - just that he can walk two miles per hour.)
3. A volcano.
4. "Fluoridation"
has 12 letters, and some dictionaries carry "fluoridization," with
14 letters, as a synonym. The word "duotrigintillion" is in some
English dictionaries. It is the name for a very large number (10 to the 99th
power), and it has 16 letters.
5. He climbed into the
landing gear of a plane to get a free ride, and the temperature at 30,000
feet was 40 degrees below freezing.
6. I said
that,"that 'that' that that man wrote should have been underlined. For a complete explanation, see
the page; That Riddle About
That "That".
7. 12.
For
more click here
Tricky Trivia Questions
If you quickly glance
at the following trivia questions, you might think they are not too
difficult. However, most people will get less than half of them right. See if
you can get five of the ten.
1. Where did Chinese
gooseberries originally come from?
2. Where are Panama
hats made?
3. How many years did
the "Hundred Years War" last?
4. What color is the
"black box" in jet airplanes?
5. What was the first
name of King George the sixth?
6. Which animals do we
get catgut from?
7. When do Russians
celebrate the October Revolution?
8. What is used for the
bristles of a "camels hair brush?"
9. What animal is
thought to be the source of the name "Canary
Islands?"
10. What color are
purple finches?
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Answers To The Tricky Trivia Questions
1. New Zealand -
"Chinese gooseberry" is another name for the kiwi fruit. Its fuzzy
exterior reminded somebody of a gooseberry. Note: This one is an error. This fruit
is actually native to southern China.
2. Ecuador - Panama
hats have always been made in Ecuador,
from the leaves of the panama-hat palm. The origin of the name is uncertain,
but made popular when Teddy Roosevelt wore his while visiting the Panama canal.
3. 116 years - It was a
conflict between England
and France,
from 1337 to 1453.
4. Orange
- The term "black box" means a device that is viewed primarily in
terms of its input and output characteristics (you can't see inside it). On
planes these are orange to make them easier to find after a crash.
5. Albert - (Albert
Frederick Arthur George) He was King of the United Kingdom (1936- 1952), the
last Emperor of India until 1947, and the last King of Ireland until 1949.
6. Horses and Sheep - A
tough cord used for musical strings, surgical stitching and more, it has
never been made from cats. The intestines of horses, sheep, goats, mules,
pigs and donkeys have been used.
7. November - It refers
to the events of late October, 1917, but the anniversary of the October
Revolution is November 7, and was an official holiday in the Soviet Union.
8. Squirrel Hair - The
hair of goats, ponies, bears, and sheep are also used, alone or in
combinations. Hair from camels is considered too woolly for brushes, and is
never used.
9. Dog - Insula
Canaria, a Latin name meaning Island of the Dogs, was applied originally to
the island of Gran Canaria. Apparently there were
wild dogs that populated many of the islands when they were first visited by
ancient Romans.
10. Red and Brown -
Males (adult) are normally red on the head, breast, and back. Females are
light brown above, white below, and with dark brown streaks throughout.
If you got even three
of these tricky trivia questions right, you are doing better than most. If
you got seven or more correct, consider yourself a trivia genius.
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Einstein's Biggest Blunder?
Dark Energy May Be Consistent With Cosmological
Constant
ScienceDaily (Nov. 28,
2007)
— Einstein's self-proclaimed "biggest
blunder" -- his postulation of a cosmological constant (a force that opposes
gravity and keeps the universe from collapsing) -- may not be such a blunder
after all, according to the research of an international team of scientists
that includes two Texas
A&M University
researchers.
The team is working on a project called ESSENCE that studies
supernovae (exploding stars) to figure out if dark energy -- the accelerating
force of the universe -- is consistent with Einstein's cosmological constant.
Texas A&M researchers Nicholas Suntzeff and Kevin Krisciunas are
part of the project, which began in October of 2002 and is scheduled to end
next month after achieving its goal of discovering and studying 200
supernovae. The team uses a 4-meter diameter telescope in Chile during
the observing season of October to December to find the supernovae.
In 1917, Einstein was working on his Theory of General Relativity and
was trying to come up with an equation that describes a static universe --
one that stands still and does not collapse under the force of gravity in a
big crunch. In order to keep the universe static in his theory, Einstein
introduced a cosmological constant -- a force that opposes the force of
gravity.
Then, 12 years later, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is not
static -- it is actually expanding. So Einstein scrapped his idea of a
cosmological constant and dismissed it as his biggest blunder.
In 1998, however, two teams of scientists, one of which Texas A&M
researcher Suntzeff co-founded, discovered that the universe is not only
expanding, but its expansion is actually accelerating -- going faster and
faster.
"So there had to be some other force that had overcome the force
of gravity and is driving the universe into an exponential
acceleration," Suntzeff said. This opposing force is what scientists now
call dark energy, and it is believed to constitute roughly 74 percent of the
universe. The other constituents of the universe are dark matter, which
composes about 22 percent of the universe, and ordinary matter, which is
about 4 percent.
"Eighty years later, it turns out that Einstein may have been
right [about a cosmological constant]," Krisciunas said. "So he was
smarter than he gave himself credit for."
The type of supernovae that the ESSENCE team studies all give off the
same amount of energy and have essentially the same peak brightness.
Researchers can compare the observed brightness of a supernova that they see
in the sky to its known actual brightness to figure out how far away the
supernova is.
Researchers also look at what is called the red shift of the supernova,
which tells them how fast the universe is expanding. When scientists compare
the distance of the supernova to its red shift, they can measure the
acceleration of the expansion of the universe. This acceleration is caused by
the force scientists call dark energy.
The ESSENCE team can then use the value of the acceleration to figure
out the density of dark energy, which they then use to calculate what is
called the w-parameter. For Einstein's cosmological constant to be correct,
the w-parameter must equal -1, and so far, the results of the ESSENCE project
seem to confirm that it is indeed very close to -1.
"The magic value is -1 exactly," Krisciunas said. "If
the number turns out to be precisely -1, then this dark energy is a
relatively simple thing -- it is Einstein's cosmological constant." The
team won't have the final results until later next year, but right now, the
measurement is coming in at -1 plus or minus 10 percent error, Suntzeff said,
so the initial data seems to point to Einstein being correct.
"We can never test [dark energy] in the laboratory, so
astronomers have to measure it [through observational data], and one of the
ways we're measuring it is with supernovae in the ESSENCE project,"
Suntzeff said. "Dark energy is completely unexplained by conventional
physics. Perhaps this is a manifestation of the 5th dimension from string
theory. Or maybe it is a new vacuum energy density that is changing slowly in
time. We have no idea, and that is what excites both physicists and
astronomers."
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The
Wizards Door
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It's just fun... really!
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Humorous Stories
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Peek into the portal of weirdness, travel the internet to the strange odd
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A place to be
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to laugh, and to
find allegories...
Charlie Tubbles' Funny Videos
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humorous sites.
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Curios/Elephant man HomePages
Everything you want
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by RECTUM, WORMS
in the UTERUS anyone?
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The official site
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email,
websites, cool
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