Brain Teasers

Give me a minor chord please, mastro. Thank you. (singing) Cool, clear, water...water

Brilliant! Easy eh? :) Next brain twister?

I dont get it??!!
Ps water can be murkey;):lol:

I want to ask a question but its Pendragons turn(ps make it very very easy so I get to ask :D)

OK. Yes, water gets murky, but if you put it in a glass...

Anyway, next question:

You are in a room with a window in all four walls. Each window faces South. A bear walks by. What color is the bear?

White as only in the South Pole all the windows can face the South and polar bears are white.



What three letter word best completes the below words?

***Y

SW***

AL***

W***

F***

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

White as only in the South Pole all the windows can face the South and polar bears are white.

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North Pole, dear lady. At the South Pole all windows face North. But you are correct about the Polar Bear, and they only live near the North Pole. :)

I meant to say North Pole! :goof:

Army
Swarm
Alarm
Warm
Farm

The word is "arm".


Hmm.
Well, this isn't exactly a brain teaser, but it is an interesting story our literature teacher told us. It cannot be solved with pure logic, it needs some knowledge on history of literature. We probably don't remember it exactly how it was told, but we'll try.

Once, in the last century, some Russian intellectuals got the permission to visit France.
One of them met a french noble in a cafe. They chatted and had really interesting thoughts and so on but then the russian asked the French nobleman's name.
He answered: "If I tell you my name, you will leave the table."
The russian was surprised and didn't believe him and asked him to tell it anyway.
The frenchman said his name, and, to prevent the russian from leaving, he himself left the table.

What was the frenchmans (last) name?

It has got nothing to do with the languages nor is it a play on words.

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Originally Posted by Taliesin

Army
Swarm
Alarm
Warm
Farm

The word is "arm".


Hmm.
Well, this isn't exactly a brain teaser, but it is an interesting story our literature teacher told us. It cannot be solved with pure logic, it needs some knowledge on history of literature. We probably don't remember it exactly how it was told, but we'll try.

Once, in the last century, some Russian intellectuals got the permission to visit France.
One of them met a french noble in a cafe. They chatted and had really interesting thoughts and so on but then the russian asked the French nobleman's name.
He answered: "If I tell you my name, you will leave the table."
The russian was surprised and didn't believe him and asked him to tell it anyway.
The frenchman said his name, and, to prevent the russian from leaving, he himself left the table.

What was the frenchmans (last) name?

It has got nothing to do with the languages nor is it a play on words.

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I've no idea... lol. Away? I have a strange feeling that we(or maybe the Russian people) obtained a word because of this event(probably his last name)

Anyhow... now that I noticed this topic I think I'll delete my riddles topic to prevent having 2 topics of the same thing(basically). Anyhow... my riddle?

Not being part of the group of flight, away it flies alone. What is it?(not Time, kind of fits the riddle though)

btw the answer to the riddle in my topic was selfishness, kind of easy:

Me before You
You after Me
Me, Me, Me
This is what it's all about. What is it?(Selfishness)

EDIT:
bleh... apparently I can't delete it... oh well... I'll just let it die then

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Originally Posted by DigitalCrash

Not being part of the group of flight, away it flies alone. What is it?(not Time, kind of fits the riddle though)

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Light :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Taliesin

Once, in the last century, some Russian intellectuals got the permission to visit France.
One of them met a french noble in a cafe. They chatted and had really interesting thoughts and so on but then the russian asked the French nobleman's name.
He answered: "If I tell you my name, you will leave the table."
The russian was surprised and didn't believe him and asked him to tell it anyway.
The frenchman said his name, and, to prevent the russian from leaving, he himself left the table.

What was the frenchmans (last) name?

It has got nothing to do with the languages nor is it a play on words.

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ohh was he related to Ras-whats his face and the russian reveloution or are we talking before that??

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Originally Posted by Taliesin

Once, in the last century, some Russian intellectuals got the permission to visit France.
One of them met a french noble in a cafe. They chatted and had really interesting thoughts and so on but then the russian asked the French nobleman's name.
He answered: "If I tell you my name, you will leave the table."
The russian was surprised and didn't believe him and asked him to tell it anyway.
The frenchman said his name, and, to prevent the russian from leaving, he himself left the table.

What was the frenchmans (last) name?

It has got nothing to do with the languages nor is it a play on words.

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Romanoff? C'est possible?

Nope, not light

Nope.
Hint: it has got a thing to do with an ancestor of the Frenchman.
And we are talkingabout time before the Russian revolution.

Related to russian literature.