My Neurons Love Me For Exercising Them
Last Problem:
Give the most degrees an obtuse angle can have.
Answer:
179 degrees. Remember that 180 degrees is a straight line or straight angle! Now this one should refresh those neural networks.
Today’s Question:
What do you call the thinnest and smallest blood vessels?
Yesterday’s Challenge:
Turn the word “peach” into the opposite of “expensive.”
Answer:
cheap
Today’s Problem:
Give the most degrees an obtuse angle can have.
Last Problem:
What word can you remove one letter from it to make a new word, then take another letter off and get yet another word, and so on until there is only one letter left, still making yet a different word?
Answer:
“restarted”
restarted, restated, restate, estate, state, sate, sat, at, a
Today’s Challenge:
Turn the word “peach” into the opposite of “expensive.”
Last Problem:
What rule can you apply to each of the following words to make new words of them all?
adds, ants, inks, ohms, sheer, star
The answer is to…
Answer:
Replace each letter with the next letter of the alphabet – adds becomes beet, ants becomes bout, etc.
Today’s Problem:
What word can you remove one letter from it to make a new word, then take another letter off and get yet another word, and so on until there is only one letter left, still making yet a different word?
Yesterday’s problem:
What is the common link between these words:
threshold, taciturn, signature, redress, misspelling, lambaste, hockey, decoration
Answer:
Each word is made up of two shorter words which are joined by a common letter. The second word starts on the same letter as the first word ends on. threshold => thresh and hold, taciturn => tacit and turn, etc.
Today’s Problem:
What rule can you apply to each of the following words to make new words of them all?
adds, ants, inks, ohms, sheer, star
The answer is to…