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Brain Tease Season 12

tnurtanio — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:13:16 +0000

What is the most common name in the Bible – Shared by 32 people in the
Old Testament, and one in the New Testament? (Sept 07, 10)
What is the most common misspelled word in English? (Sept 21, 10)
There are 8 US presidents who did not attend college. Name 1. (Sept 28, 10)

tnurtanio — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:43:40 +0000

What word is a palindrome (a word spelled the same forward and backwards) and also the name of a language? (Apr 13, 10)
The letter “i” appears six times in this English word? What word is it? (Apr 20, 10)
Albert Einstein referred to this as the most complex thing in the world to understand. What was it? (Apr 27, 10)
What is the 2nd most popular American home that people visit? (May 04, 10)
The 3-syllable word “hideous” becomes a 2-syllable word with the change of a single consonant. What is it? (May 18, 10)

tnurtanio — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:35:57 +0000

What English word goes from 1 syllable to 3 syllables when you add one letter to it? (Jan 05, 10)
What word when you capitalize its first letter, changes its meaning and
pronunciation? (Jan 12, 10)
What English word has the most definitions? (Jan 19, 10)
What English word keeps the same pronunciation when you take four of its five letters away? (Jan 26, 10)
What is the longest word in the English dictionary with only one vowel? (Feb 02, 10)
What word has three consecutive sets of recurring double letters? (Feb 09, 10)
Name an English word of more than two letters that both begins and ends with the letters ‘he’? (Feb 16, 10)

tnurtanio — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:57:34 +0000

What is the name of the first city in the US to be named for a biblical origin?
What is the only state in the US that has not had a temperature reading above 100 degrees Fahrenheit?
In what language was the New Testament originally written?
What president has had the most names of towns and cities named for him?
What was the original language of the first bible published in the
Untited States?
What department store founder, who originally called his stores, Golden Rule stores, was noted for his charitable giving to religious groups?
Which US President got over a broken engagement by reading the Bible?
He said”the bible is the best cure for the blues”.
Name two cities in the United States consisting of 6 letters each that rhyme with one another.
What Christmas song has sold the most copies?

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:59:55 +0000

What word in the English Language is always pronounced incorrectly??
Which US State Capital’s first 4 letters spell out the name of a month? What’s the capital?
Can you think of another state capital whose first 6 letters spells out another month??
If you add “G” to the name of an insect & rearrange the letters, you’ll get another insect. What are they?
Remove the first letter from an animal and you’ll get another.
“SAID” and “RAID” both end in “AID” but don’t rhyme. Find another word.
What is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”?
Out of all the words in the English language, there is only one word that becomes longer when you take away a letter. What is the word?
What word can be written, forward, backward or upside down and still be read left to right?????

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:34:00 +0000

Take 2 lower parts of the body, combine them and you’ll have the name of a religion
What word can you make past tense by moving the first letter of the word to the end of the word?
What is the strongest muscle in the human body?
What is the country with the largest Catholic population in the world?
What is the largest Catholic Church (building) in the Western Hemisphere?
What is the oldest Roman Catholic parish in New York City, and who was the first United States citizen to be canonized there?
What is the most popular 1st name for a Pope?
In the 1300′s there were two popes reigning at the same time. One of them is in Rome. Name the other city and one of the popes.