Sorry, for a second time.. That's not good.... However, I pray excuse for not posting the puzzle for the last two days. My work has been in trouble, due to a travel requirement.
Here are two puzzles. Please try them.
P31
The grand prix in Space
Time : The future; Scene : The Grand Prix of the Space Age.
The course from the race is from Earth to the Moon and back. The qualifying mark is a round trip in four days for an average of a little over 5000 miles per hour. The favourite got off to a bad start and managed to average only 2500 miles per hour for the first half of the journey. However, this did not worry him unduly, as his machine had a gimmik or two up its fuselage. “ I can easily average 7500 on the return journey, and I’ll still make it, safely”, he thought.
Could he qualify ?
P32
On one of the TV quiz programmes, where they offer Rs. 64000 for the correct answer to questions like “What did Humpy Dumpy sit on ?”, the quiz master offered the question - “Why are 1963 cents worth almost $ 20 today ?”
The only numismatist on the panel was so goofed that he not only didn’t answer the question, but also the next two questions and thus lost his chance of winning the prize. In his place, what would you have said ?
2 comments:
1963 cents is 19 dollors 63 cents, which is almost $20.. Is this anywhere near the answer???
-Vivek (http://vivek-b.livejournal.com)
Cant you allow anonymous comments?.. so ppl without google account can also comment over here...
And the space age race.. I guess the guy consumes almost all the 4 days to reach the moon..
1 more suggestion.. keep a timeout period and please write the correct answer too..
-Vivek(http://vivek-b.livejournal.com)
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