Brainteasers IV

1. An eagle, an elephant, and a walleye have two. A tiger, a moose, a bear, a turtle, and a snake have one. A human doesn't have any. What is it?

2. What number is two-thirds of one-half of one-fourth of 240?

3. Fill in the letters to complete the following word, which means "fullfilled, achieved"

C O _ _ _ E _ E _

4. A gentleman leaves home, proceeds a short distance and turns left. He goes another short distance and turns left again. He goes another short distance, then goes home. As he nears home he sees two masked men. Who are the two masked men?

5. What do the following words have in common?

ahoy   chin   flux    hint   know   most   below

6. What is the product of the following series:

(x-a)(x-b)(x-c).....(x-z) = ?

7. Which word in the English language uses all five vowels plus Y in alphabetical order and uses each one only once? Hint (not that it does much good): There are actually two such words.

8. Fill in the three blanks of the following sequence:

A E F H I K L M _ _ _ W X Y Z

9. On fine summer day, two sons and two fathers went fishing. By the end of the day, each had caught one fish, with a total of three fish. How could this be?

10. Melissa likes 625 but not 624; she likes 900 but not 800; she likes 121 but not 122. Why not?

11. My son's favorite place is the local petting zoo with both goats and peacocks. If there is a total of 34 eyes and 58 feet, how many of each animal are there?

12. What is 1/2 of 1/4 of 2/9 of 3/7 of 84?

And now for something completely difficult. . .  We're talking really hard. If this one ever shows up on the SAT's, heads will roll at the Educational Testing Service:

13. What is the significance of the number sequence: 4588968?

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