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Front Page - Friday, July 4, 2014

Brainbuster – Make your brain tingle!




My brain is still on our Fourth of July vacation last week. Since there is nothing special on my mind, I have decided to just do a hodge-podge of trivia – some of it just plain silliness! Have fun! 

1. What do the initials GUI stand for? 

2. In May 1884, 214 packing cases arrived in the U.S. by boat from France. These cases were unpacked, and in the next 30 months were assembled into what? Think about it – the year is 1884, and the boat is from France. 

3. What Queen weighed 81,000 tons, was 310 meters long, and in 1938 won a trophy for making the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean? 

4. One of the most popular TV shows of the mid 1980’s was Cagney and Lacey. Who were the two stars of this show?

 5. What was the first state to enter the U.S. after the original thirteen?

 6. Sugar is made of edible crystalline substances. What 3 substances are those?  

7. What do these well known people have in common? Dan Aykroyd, Neil Young, Michael J. Fox, and Peter Jennings?  

8. Try to unscramble the word jumbles to make 4 common words. All letters must be used: lcpein; ngaore; tpmcuore; rryblai 

9. Read each line aloud without making any mistakes. If you make a mistake you MUST start again without going any further.

This is this puzzle

This is is puzzle

This is how puzzle

This is to puzzle

This is keep puzzle

This is an puzzle

This is idiot puzzle

This is busy puzzle

This is for puzzle

This is forty puzzle

This is seconds! Puzzle

ANSWERS:

1.Graphical User Interface

2. Statue Of Liberty

3. Queen Mary - with an average speed of 31.69 knots

4. Sharon Gless / Tyne Daly

5. Vermont

6. Sucrose, Lactose, and Fructose

7. All born in Canada

8. Pencil, Orange, Computer, Library

9. Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top.