My Neurons Love Me For Exercising Them
Last Problem:
What is the fewest number of colors you can use to color a map of the U.S. without using any of the same colors on connecting states – no border lines have the same color on both sides?
Answer:
The answer is “4” – you can have virtually any map, real or imagined, where no borders will touch a common color, using only 4 colors.
Today’s Problem:
What is the common link among these words:
threshold, taciturn, signature, redress, misspelling, lambaste, hockey, decoration
Last Problem:
If your mother is named Sandy, and she only has 4 daughters, what is the name of the other daughter if the other three are named Penny, Nickle and Dime?
Answer:
“your own name” – even if you are a male, this situation is about a woman with 4 daughters – meaning you would be a daughter for the purpose of the story.
Today’s Problem:
What is the fewest number of colors you can use to color a map of the U.S. without using any of the same colors on connecting states – no border lines have the same color on both sides?
Last Problem:
Steve Cramer was moving a piano into a 5 story apartment which required a crane which lifted the piano up high enough so it could be placed through the window of the fifth story apartment.
Unfortunately, a cable breaks and the piano falls and lands on an innocent man who happened to be walking by on the sidewalk. A few moments later, the man gets up and is ok, but the piano is a loss. How did the man on the sidewalk not get hurt?
Answer:
The man is in a cartoon. This is how he can get up and walk away from harm!
Today’s Problem:
If your mother is named Sandy, and she only has 4 daughters, what is the name of the other daughter if the other three are named Penny, Nickle and Dime?
Last Problem:
A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done.
Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to buy a pair of sunglasses; how does he indicate what he wants?
Answer:
He just has to open his mouth and asks…. It’s really very simple….
Today’s Problem:
Steve Cramer was moving a piano into a 5 story apartment which required a crane which lifted the piano up high enough so it could be placed through the window of the fifth story apartment.
Unfortunately, a cable breaks and the piano falls and lands on an innocent man who happened to be walking by on the sidewalk. A few moments later, the man gets up and is ok, but the piano is a loss. How did the man on the sidewalk not get hurt?
Last Question
You are participating in a race. If you overtake the last person, what position are you in?
Answer:
If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong. Tell me, how can you overtake the last person?
Today’s Problem:
A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done.
Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to buy a pair of sunglasses; how does he indicate what he wants?