Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester (there are two options):

Answer 1:
Fill the three-gallon tank from the eight-gallon. Dump the three-gallon tank into the five-gallon. Fill the three-gallon tank from the eight-gallon again and use that to fill the five-gallon. Now you've got two gallons in the eight-gallon tank, five gallons in the five-gallon tank, and one gallon in the three-gallon tank.

Dump the five-gallon tank into the eight-gallon tank. Put the gallon from the three-gallon tank into the five-gallon tank. Now you've got seven gallons in the eight-gallon tank and one in the five-gallon tank.

Fill the three-gallon tank from the eight-gallon tank. Dump the three-gallon tank into the five-gallon tank. You should now have four gallons in the eight-gallon tank and four gallons in the five-gallon tank.

Answer 2:
Fill the five-gallon tank from the eight-gallon. Fill the three-gallon tank from the five-gallon. Pour the three-gallon tank back into the eight-gallon tank. Now you should have six gallons in the eight-gallon tank and two gallons in the five-gallon tank.

Dump the two gallons in the five-gallon tank into the three-gallon tank. Pour what you can from the eight-gallon tank into the five-gallon tank. Now you should have one gallon in the eight-gallon tank, five gallons in the five-gallon tank, and two gallons in the three-gallon tank..

This week’s challenge:
Well, since nobody is playing along to the Test Your Knowledge Tuesday, I’m closing it out. This will be last one. I’ve made this final question a really hard one that I know NOBODY will be able to get.

Here you go:
As you are well aware, Leonardo da Vinci was a famous Italian artist. What country was he born in?

Feel free to post answers in the comments section, or return next Tuesday to find out what the answer is.

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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester: His son.

This week’s challenge:
You have an eight-gallon tank of water, which is completely full, an empty five-gallon tank, and an empty three-gallon tank. Without throwing any water away, how could you put exactly four gallons in the eight-gallon tank and four gallons in the five-gallon tank?

Feel free to post answers in the comments section, or return next Tuesday to find out what the answer is. (Note: there might be 2 answers to this tough one….)

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Of course, there'll be no answers given or even attempted cuz nobody is interested in having their brain challenged apparently.

Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester: 96 games must be played. All teams, except the champion team, will lose a game exactly once.

This week’s challenge:

A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies in verse, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?

Feel free to post answers in the comments section, or return next Tuesday to find out what the answer is.

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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester: Johannes won, Rene came in second, Louis came in third.

This week challenge:

97 baseball teams participate in an annual state tournament. The champion is choses for this tournament by the usual elimination scheme. That is, the 97 teams are divided into pairs, and the two teams of each pair play against each other. The loser of each pair is eliminated, and the the remaining teams are paired up again, etc.

How many games must be played to determine a champion?

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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester: Fifty-eight minutes. Although his net progress each minute is one foot, he reaches the top on the fifty-eighth minute just before he would normally slip back two feet.

This week challenge:
Isaac and Albert were excitedly describing the result of the Third Annual International Science Fair Extravaganza in Sweden. There were three contestants, Louis, Renee and Johannes. Isaac reported that Louis won the fair, while Rene came in second. Albert, on the other hand, reported that Johannes won the fair, while Louis came in second.

In fact, neither Isaac nor Albert had given a correct report of the results of the science fair. Each of them had given one correct statement and one false statement. What was the actual placing of the three contestants?

Feel free to post answers in the comments section, or return next Tuesday to find out what the answer is.

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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday

The answer to last week's tester: Three. In the worst case, the first two socks you take out will consist of one black sock and one white sock. The next sock you take out is guaranteed to match one or the other.

This week challenge:
A mountain goat attempts to scale a cliff sixty feet high. Every minute, the goat bounds upward three feet but slips back two. How long does it take for the goat to reach the top?

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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester: the letter T would be next because there are no curves in it

This week challenge:
Your sock drawer contains ten pairs of white socks and ten pairs of black socks. If you're only allowed to take one sock from the drawer at a time and you can't see what color sock you're taking until you've taken it, how many socks do you have to take before you're guaranteed to have at least one matching pair?

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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester: $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies)

This week challenge:
Which letter would logically replace the question mark?

A, E, F, H, I, K, L, M, N, ?

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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester: Mark, Bill, Kathy, Mike, Barbara, Carolyn

This week challenge:
What's the largest amount of money you can have in change and still not have change for a dollar?

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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester: Akron/Dayton/Cleveland (all in Ohio)

This week challenge:
In a spelling bee, Barbara beat Carolyn. Mark beat Bill. Kathy scored lower than Bill. Mike scored lower than Kathy, but better than Barbara. What was the order, from first to last?

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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester: TEN (TENant/TENdon/TENure)

This week's challenge:

The names of three cities in a single US state are hidden in the sentence below. Can you find all three cities, which are in consecutive order?

"Watch out for that kayak," Ron said on Sunday to no one in particular, raising the panic level and upsetting the crowd.

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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester: DISCRETION

This week's challenge:
Place the same three (3) letters in front of each blank to form three different words:

1. ____ant
2. ____don
3. ____ure

Feel free to post answers in the comments section, or return next Tuesday to find out what the answer is.


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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

The answer to last week's tester: INQUISITION

This week's challenge:
You can make one legitimate English word that is an anagram of DIRECTIONS. What is the word?

Feel free to post answers in the comments section, or return next Tuesday to find out what this word is.

Just don't hurt your brain trying to figure this out.

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Test Your Knowledge Tuesday!

A new feature here at TFKoP each Tuesday will be Test Your Knowledge Tuesday. I'll scour the the internet to find some intersting brain-testing questions to see if you can solve the answer before you search for it on the 'net. And searching for it on the 'net is totally allowed! Why wouldn't it be...you're doing research. And research suggests that you're studying, and studying is good!

I'll get you all started with an easy one, just to get you warmed up for the things to come. The answer will be posted next Tuesday when the new game/puzzle is unveiled. Or, someone might post it in the comments, so check there too.

And away we go!

Fill in the blanks to complete the word:

_N_U_S_T_O_

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