Brain Candy

        1. What is the next number in this series:
          1, 4, 3, 11, 15, ..........

        2. What is the next number in this series:
          77, 49, 36, 18, ..........

        3. When can you add two to eleven and get one as a correct answer?

        4. Which of the following words does not belong in the group?
          1. oriole
          2. orange
          3. month
          4. oil

        5. What word becomes shorter by adding two letters to it?

        6. What word are Harvard and Yale students taught to say wrong?

        7. How can it be that a dead man was married to the sister of his widow?

        8. What does the following mean?
            YYURYYUBYYUR4ME

        9. Which of the following does not belong?
            Father
            Aunt
            Cousin
            Sister

        10. What is very unusual about the following words?
            Bough
            Cough
            Dough
            Rough
            Through

        11. There is a word in the english language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three a female, the first four a great man, and the whole word a great woman. What is this word?

        12. There is a word in the english language in which the last four letters can be removed and the word is pronounced the same way. What is this word?

        13. What song does 6545666 refer too?

        14. What word means "house", and by transposing the second and forth letters mean what the house could be made of?

        15. What is the differance between a $20 gold peice, and a new $100 bill? Hint: it has nothing to do with the materals there made of or the price of gold.

        16. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?

        17. How would you rearrange the letters in "New Door" to create one word.
            Hint: There is only one correct answer.

        18. Name the three color words in the English language that have no rhyme?

        19. What polarity is the north pole?

        20. What is considered to be the first celestral observatory?

        21. What type animal is a brocket?

        22. What is the only crime mentioned in the US Constitution?

        23. According to Plato, what island nation once exsisted in the Alantic Ocean?
            Hint: It is not Atlantis.

        24. Louise Joey Brown was born in 1978 in England, why is she famous?

        25. What is the full name of Doctor Seuss?

        26. What is the scientific term for the evaporation of water from a plants leaves?

        27. What is the claim to fame of Guion F Bluford, Jr.?

        28. In what Shakespeare play woud you find the line, "Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble."?

        29. In what country is Transylvania?

        30. How many sides does nonagon have?

        31. Which of the leading languages, contains the largest number of words?

        32. What is the most common used word in English conversation?

        33. Name the process, in which a solid changes directly into a gas?

        34. Name the only two people featured in the baseball hall of fame who never played baseball?

        35. What are the names of the mythological twins called Gemini? (one was played by Nicholas Cage in the movie)

        36. What is a boomslang?

        37. Name two planets in our solar system whose days are longer then their years?

        38. Name the only species of bird who migrates by swimming?

        39. What is the common name for NaCI?

        40. Which letter begins more words in the English language then any other?

        41. What is the name of the water, made of deuterium and oxygen?

        42. What were the first two kinds of animals domesticated by man? (sorry, it was not the dog or cat)

        43. If a chicken and a half, lays an egg and a half, in a day and a half, and you have a half dozen chickens, how many eggs will you have in a week? (no ½ eggs)

        44. What first walks on four, then two, then three, then four?

        45. Sound travels at about 1,200 fps in water, about 600 fps in air at sea level. How fast does it travel in space?

        46. What is the next number in this series... 0, 1, 10, 11,

        47. What 11-letter word is pronounced incorrectly by more than 99% of Ivy League graduates?

        48. You have nine coins, eight weigh exactly the same, one is heavier. Using a balance scale, determine the heavy coin by using the balance only twice.

        49. How many leap years have there been starting in the year 1, and ending in the year 2001?

        50. What "Holliday" occures only on February 29 ?

        51. Why is it that an eskimo will never [even if starving], eat a penguin or it's egg?

        52. How long did "The hundred years war" last?

        53. What country is known for making Panama hats?

        54. From what animals do we get catgut? (2 correct answers)

        55. What month does Russia celebrate the October Revolution?

        56. What is a camel's hair brush made of?

        57. What animal are the Canary Islands named for?

        58. What is King George VI's first name?

        59. What color is a purple finch?

        60. What country do Chinese Gooseberries come from?

        61. What color are airplanes Black Box?





        ©1996-2005 All Rights Reserved

        E-Mail your answers to be graded, and on request a list of the correct answers to all the questions you answer. (Faking it will not get you the answers)

        © 1996-2006





Quiz and Trivia Web Ring
Next Site
Previous Site
Random Site
Join Ring
1