Puzzles Of The Week
1) What English word starting with a 'B' has three consecutive double letters?
2) Suppose you have n guests and a whole pie.
How would you cut the pie so that all the guests have the same amount.
a) Assume you have a circular pie.
b) Assume you have a square pie.
c) Assume you have a rectangular pie.
d) Assume you have an equilateral triangle pie.
3) What literary work starts with: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."
4) Name the poem and poet, and the novelist and novel title that the novelist borrowed from the poem.
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where *** ****** ** ***** are stored"
5) Milkman's Puzzle
Honest John says: "What I don't know about milk is scarcely
worth mentioning," but he was flabbergasted one day
when each of two ladies asked him for two quarts of milk.
One lady had a five-quart pail and the other had a
four-quart pail. John had only two ten-gallon cans, each
full of milk. How did he measure out exactly two quarts
of milk for each lady?
It is a juggling trick pure and
simple, devoid of trick or device, but it calls for much
cleverness to get two quarts of milk into those two pails
without making use of any receptacles other than the two
pails and the two full cans.
