What language?

What language does come next in the following sequence?
This puzzle is intended to test and improve your general knowledge.

• Arabic
• English
• French
• Mandarin
• Russian
• ?

Answer:

Spanish

The sequence, in alphabetical order, illustrates the six official languages of the United Nations that are used in UN meetings, and in which all official UN documents are written:

·         Arabic

·         English

·         French

·         Mandarin

·         Russian

·         Spanish

Which string ...

Which of the following strings of letters is odd one out?

1) SUVXY
2) BNOPL
3) CGPQR
4) MPTVZ

Answer:

No. 2. In the other strings, letters are in the alphabetically ascending order .

Word Puzzle: Find an eleven-letter ...

Word Puzzle: Find An Eleven-Letter English Word 

In the above figure, an eleven-letter English word can be found! To find it, start from any circle going along the lines without crossing any letter more than once!

Answer: Arrangement

Which symbol will balance ...

Which symbol will balance the third scale?

Answer:

11 players lasting for 90 minutes ...

In a game of 11 players lasting for 90 minutes, 4 reserves alternate equally with each player; it means that all players, including the reserves, play for the same length of time. For how long?

Answer:

66 minutes
66 = (90 * 11)/(11 + 4)

X=? Y=?

Two numbers, x and y, are such that if x gets 77 from y they will be in the ratio 4 to 1, but if y receives 42 from x, their ratio will be 1 to 2. What are x and y?  

Answer:

x=127 and y=128

Word Odd Out

Which of the following words is odd one out?

1. actualized
2. authorizer
3. customized
4. carbonized
5. scandalize

Answer:

No. 3. All other words share 4 letters A, E, I, and Z.

Word Ladder: Chase to Catch!

In this word ladder, you should start from Chase and end to Catch by adding 8 words in between!

Note: A Word Ladder is a word game invented by Lewis Carroll. A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and to solve the puzzle one must find a chain of other words to link the two, where at each step the words differ by altering a single letter [for more info visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_ladder].

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 ANSWER: 
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Find a 13-letter English Word

In the following puzzle, as in the previous post, starting from any letter, trace out a 13-letter English word by going along the lines without crossing any letter more than once.

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 ANSWER: Breaststroker
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Find a 14-letter English Word

In the following puzzle, as in the two previous posts (1, 2), starting from any letter, trace out a 14-letter English word by going along the lines without crossing any letter more than once.

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 ANSWER: Dissymmetrical
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Complete a Word!

Fill in a letter to complete a 12-letter word reading either clockwise or counterclockwise. What is this 12-letter word?

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ANSWER: Correlatable (what can be correlated; e.g., correlatable phenomena).
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Object Weights

If we assume that the distance from the center has no effect on the result, which object weights the least?

Answer:

The square weights the least.

How much money do Todd and Steve have?

Todd and Steve's money are such that if Todd receive $140 from Steve they will be in the ratio 5 to 1, but if Steve receives $64 from Todd, their ratio will be 1 to 2. How much money do Todd and Steve have in their pockets?

Answer:

Todd: $200

Steve: $208

Identify Heavy Balls!

Three out of six look alike balls are heavy. Identify the heavy balls by three times weighing on a beam balance!

Answer:

Number the balls: 1, 2, ..., 6. Then weigh (No. 1, No. 2) vs (No. 4, No. 5), next weigh (No. 2, No. 3) vs (No. 5, No. 6), and then (No. 3, No. 1) vs (No. 6, No. 4).