Brain-0 Quiz Answers

11/16/2015

Answers to Last Fridays Brain-O Quiz:

1.  Sure, one raindrop plus one raindrop equals one raindrop.

2.  Two and two.

3.  18.  Don’t count 5 (it just has one digit), and don’t count 55 twice.

4.  Actually, it is not that amazing.  Before the game starts the score is always 0-0.

5.  11 to the 11th power equals 285,311,670,611.

Mr. B's Brain-O Quiz # 33

11/13/2015

Mr. B’s “BRAIN-O” Quiz

Guaranteed to unclog clogged up brains!

NAME:__________________ DATE:____________ PERIOD:_______

Directions: Carefully read and answer the following questions.  Print your answer clearly in the box next to each question.  Questions are worth one million nano bonus points each.  However, if you get all five correct, we will double the points for a total of ten million nano bonus points.

1.		Are there any situations when the equation “1 + 1 = 1” is always true?
2.		Find three whole numbers whose sum is equal to their product (give the same answer when added together as when they are multiplied together).
3.		How many 2-digit whole numbers have at least one 5 as a digit?
4.		My uncle Mike is amazing.  My uncle Mike can predict the score of any football game before it starts, and amazingly, he is always right!  How can he do this?
5.		What is the largest number expressed with exactly four 1's and no other digits or symbols?

Problems do not go away.   

They must be worked through or else they remain, 

forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

- Scott Peck

WARNING: For Educational Purposes Only.
Please do not attempt to answer any of these questions
unless you are willing to learn something.

Answers will be posted on Monday.

David

Friday the Thirteenth - again

11/13/2015

Today is "Friday the Thirteenth" - again.  This is the third one this year!!

The next 5 years worth of "Friday the Thirtheenth"s are:

Friday, May 13, 2016

Friday, January 13, 2017

Friday, October 13, 2017

Friday, April 13, 2018

Friday, July 13, 2018

Friday, September 13, 2019

Friday, December 13, 2019

Friday, March 13, 2020

Friday, November 13, 2020

I know it gets to be a pain to keep up with them.  But if we were using the International Fixed Calendar it would be easy.

“The International Fixed calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Eastman plan, the 13 Month calendar or the Equal Month calendar) is a solar calendar proposal for calendar reform designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, who presented it in 1902. It provides for a year of 13 months of 28 days each. It is therefore a perennial calendar, with every date fixed always on the same weekday. Though it was never officially adopted in any country, it was the official calendar of the Eastman Kodak Company from 1928 to 1989.”  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

In this calendar EVERY 13^th of the month is a FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH.  And, since the International Fixed Calendar has 13 months that means we would get to have 13 Friday the Thirteenths every year.

Write your Congressman (or Congresswoman, or Congressperson) and ask that he or she support the adoption of the International Fixed Calendar!!!

David