CHALLENGES 49-53 Questions and Answers:
CHALLENGE 49:
Your aged grandmother tells you she was born on February
29, 1900. How old is she as of the date you are doing this puzzle?
CHALLENGE 49 ANSWER:
Your aged grandmother is pulling your leg. Nineteen hundred was not a Leap Year under the Gregorian calendar since it was not divisible by 400. But the year 2000 is.
CHALLENGE 50:
For each puzzle below, identify the two missing letters and then unscramble all the letters to form a word.
Example: BJN = Banjo.
1) U U V
2) J R R U Y
3) N Q U U
4) A B C U V
5) R T U Z
CHALLENGE 50 ANSWER:
1) Uvula
2)Perjury or juryrig
3) Unique
4) Bivouac
5) Quartz
CHALLENGE 51:
For each puzzle below, identify the two missing letters and then unscramble all the letters to form a word. (same rules as Challenge 50)
Example: BJN = Banjo.
1) A A A T T
2) F M M O U
3) N N N O U
4) A L U U U
5) D F J
CHALLENGE 51 ANSWER:
1) Cantata or ratatat
2) Flummox
3) Unknown
4) Unusual
5) Fjord
CHALLENGE 52:
If you haven't heard this one before, good. If you have, my apologies, but it's so clever I wanted to include it. After a heavy Thanksgiving meal, the night watchman went to work. In the morning, he told his boss he had dreamed that a saboteur planted a BOMB in the factory and that he felt it was a warning. The boss promptly fired him. Why?
CHALLENGE 52 ANSWER:
He shouldn't have been sleeping on the job!
CHALLENGE 53:
What are three single digits whose sum is the same as that of the digits multiplied?
CHALLENGE 52 ANSWER:
1, 2, 3