Puzzle 31

Posted on March 7, 2011 by James

Ready for another puzzle? ready, set, go!

A New York city hairdresser once said that he would rather cut the hair of three Canadians than one New Yorker. Why?

Post answers in the comments! My answers will come Saturday and a new puzzle on Monday.

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Trivia Time 13: Civil War Trivia

Posted on March 7, 2011 by James

Yeah yeah, I’m late, so sue me. Post your answers in the comments. The answers I give will be out the 19th. I don’t know what made me think of the civil war maybe it was the fact that I have been studying it in school. But I was looking for war trivia because it’s abundant. I have a bad feeling that at least one of these is going to be inaccurate (number 13). I got a good deal of trivia from www.bitsofblueandgray.com/trivia. I only scratched the surface so go and see all the stuff there.

1. What was Major Gen. William L. Jackson’s nickname?

2. What was the “Alligator”?

3. What disease did President Lincoln contract right after the Gettysburg Address?

4. What general owned a slave, yet chose not to sell him when he needed money. He instead gave the slave his freedom?

5. How many cannon in a union battery?

6. What were “fireballs” in the south?

7. What/who was a dragoon?

8. What did General “Jeb” Stuart’s nickname, “Jeb,” mean?

9. When Marion Rangers organized in 1861, a famous author joined as a lieutenant, but left, having fired only one hostile shot during the war, before it was mustered into Confederate service.  Who was he?

10. What was the nickname for raw recruits during the war?

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TT 13 delayed

Posted on March 2, 2011 by James

Instead a piece of advice for you:
TT 13 will come out (hopefully) monday

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Puzzle 30

Posted on March 1, 2011 by James

Here is a “mathimatical” puzzle

Assume there are approximately 6,902,900,000 people on Earth. What would you estimate to be the result, if you multiply together the number of fingers on every person’s left-hands? (For the purposes of this exercise, thumbs count as fingers, for five fingers per hand.)

hmm… Think for a second.
I’ll try to have the answer out Saturday, and a new puzzle on Monday.

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Puzzle 29

Posted on February 15, 2011 by James

Okay this puzzle (late though it be) requires you to pay close attention. When the answer comes it will hit you like a sack of potatoes.

A man buys rice at $1 a pound from American growers and sells them at $0.05 a pound in India. As a result of this he becomes a millionaire. How come?

answer… satmouesday err try on saturday and new on monday.

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Puzzle 28

Posted on February 7, 2011 by James

Okay this one should be obvious but maybe not. It requires a good bit of thought. I’d like to, first, give thanks to folj.com because I’ve been getting most of my puzzles from them or the wording at least. I normally have heard of the puzzles beforehand. So thank you!

Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on a hill near a remote house. Nobody put them on the lawn but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be there. What is it?

Answer on Saturday and new one on Monday. I believe most of you will get this right away considering recent events 😉

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Puzzle 27

Posted on January 31, 2011 by James

This puzzle is set in fact and you could easily Google the answer. But think a while and realize what real gain (or prevention of loss) would this give.

Many shops have prices set just under a round figure, e.g. $9.99 instead of $10.00 or $99.95 instead of $100.00 . It is assumed that this is done because the price seems lower to the consumer. But this is not the reason the practice started. What was the original reason for this pricing method?

Original (and possibly still current) use not the common supposition. Answer on Saturday and new puzzle on Monday.

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