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Test your wits! de.duc.tion [dih-duhk-shuhn] noun
•a process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true. It’s common to lose quite a bit of brain cells during the summer. It’s even been said that students lost 22 percent of their previously learned knowledge during the three-month summer vacation. Deduction is a skill that students use on a daily basis and, unlike some scholastic knowledge, will continue to use. That form of logic will help you with none of these questions. Here are 13 questions that will stump the brainiest of brains:
1. If Steve is 5 years old, and Miriam is 20, how old is Stacey? 2. If time flies when you’re having fun, and watches tell time, then is tonight going to be a good night? 3. If cantaloupe is orange, and watermelon is red, what color are sparkles? 4. If a teacher speaks to a student, but the student isn’t there to hear it, has the teacher still spoken? 5. If Jenny combs her hair from bottom to top, and Cindy Boo combs her hair from top to bottom, what way does Little Becky comb hers? 6. If you are the apple to my dumpling, and the cherry to my sundae, are you my mother? 7. If dinosaurs aren’t really extinct, and dragons do indeed exist, where is Waldo? 8. If Mel has six apples, and Olga takes four away, how many chicken pot pies has Mel eaten? 9. If know the Muffin Man, and have made it to the Milky Way, how many sides are on a broken stop sign? 10. If a pitcher throws a no-hitter and there are no foul balls, is the umpire’s name spelt the same backward as it is forward? 11. If Johnny Depp is Jack Sparrow, and Keira Knightley is Elizabeth Swann, what is Orlando Bloom’s high school GPA? 12. If conjoined triplets were named Hezekiah, Zecheriah and Bezeriah, what would the father’s name be? 13. If what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and you were really born this way, then why should I call you maybe?
Friday, August 17, 2012