Monday Brain Busters

Monday Brain Buster 4: A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?

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No 3: 'Woolly' is an example of a word that contains two consecutive pairs of double letters, but can you think of one of the very few words in the English language that contains three consecutive pairs of doble letters?

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No. 2: Walk on the living, they don’t even mumble; Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble. What are they?

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No. 1: Why is the number 8,549,176,320 unique?

 

 

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This number contains all the numbers from 0-9.

8549176320 all the numbers from 0 - 9  listed in Alphabetical order.

Eight, Five, Four, Nine, One, Seven, Six, Three, Two, Zero

It's the only number that has all the digits arranged in alphabetical order eg : e f f n o s s t t z ... and..does not have any repeat numbers.

It is evenly divisible by all digits from 1 to 9.

uses trillion, billion, million !

 

It has each number, zero through nine, listed in alphabetical order.

It's not unique; the number and answers have been on the Internet for a long time -- check with Google..

BB No. 2: fallen leaves

Agree with Pacahawi ...

When you walk on living leaves, it will soft and silent and they don't even mumble. But when the leaves die and they become dry, they mutter and grumble, as they become crunchy and noisy.

dead grass

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