How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing was wrong with it at all, and in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Why? If you study it and think about it you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it without coaching. No doubt if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you. I don't know. Now, go to work and try your luck.
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Name the most recent year in which New Year's preceded Christmas.
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Why are 1968 pennies worth more than 1967 pennies?
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A 10 foot rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat with the bottom rung on the surface of the water.
The rungs are one foot apart, and the tide goes up at the rate of 6 inches per hour.
How long will it be until three rungs are covered?
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What is the eleven letter word that all Yale graduates spell incorrectly?
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What can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up?
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Find 4 letters to complete the analogy:
H is to GRAM as D is to ?
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I asked the assistant in the hardware store,
"How much will one cost?"
"Twenty cents" she replied.
"And how much will twelve cost?" I asked.
"Forty cents." she replied.
"OK, I'll take one hundred and twelve."
How much did I pay?
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If you had only one match, and entered a dark room containing an oil
lamp, some newspaper, and some kindling wood, which would you light first?
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A farmer had 15 sheep, and all but 8 died. How many are left?
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Imagine you are driving a bus. When you start your trip there are an old lady named
Johnson and a long-haired kid on the bus. At the first stop the lady leaves and a
businessman enters. At the next stop Frankie, a young boy, enters with his little sister.
Then three old ladies who have been shopping in the mall get on. After a short trip the
long-haired kid leaves the bus and a man and lady enter. Paul with his dog Blue gets on,
while Frankie and his sister get off, and, finally, the bus arrives at the bus station.
What is the name of the bus driver?
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Do you say "Loo-iss-vill" is the capital of Kentucky, or do you
say "Loo-ee-vill" is the capital of Kentucky?
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If you spell "sit all day in the tub" S-O-A-K, and you spell "a funny
story" J-O-K-E, how do you spell "the white of an egg"?
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Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?
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If water going down the drain/toilet goes counter-clockwise in the
Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere,
in which direction would a toilet go on the equator?
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If Mr Smith's peacock lays an egg in Mr Jones' yard, who owns the egg?
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Mrs Brown's bungalow is decorated entirely in pink.
The carpet, lampshades, ceiling, walls etc are all pink.
What colour are her stairs?
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You've seen a map of Italy. In which direction does the toe of the boot face?
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A sophisticated computer is fed this knotty problem. Between two clocks, one
which is broken and doesn't run at all, while the other loses one
second every 24 hours, which is more accurate?
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What was the (American) President's name in 1960?
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Is noon AM or PM?
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Who had the title role in the 1931 movie Frankenstein?
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What is the number eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven divided
by three? (no fractions).
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If there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have?
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Exactly how many slices of 1.5 cm each can you cut from a whole bread which is 22.5 cm long?
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There are two coins which total 55 cents (read: $0.55). One of them is not a nickel.
What are the two coins?
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An electric train is moving north at 100kph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10kph. Which way does the smoke blow?
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Nancy is a very attractive clerk in a candy store. She is 19 years
old, is a Freshman at an Ivy League University, wears
fashionable clothes, and is a highly competent mathematician. She has
done a least squares analysis on her weight during
the last two years and has found that the best fitting polynomial is a
cubic equation. What does she weigh?
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Start with three coins: a penny, a nickel and a quarter. Say, "Tommy's mother has
three children. The first child's name is Penny." (Hold up the penny while saying this.) "The
second child's name is Nick." (Hold up the nickel.) What is the third child's name? (Hold
up the quarter.)
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FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
Count the words in the above sentence.
Now count the Fs in the above sentence.
Add the number of words with the number of "Fs".
What do you get?
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