Brain Teasers
If you were running a race, and you passed the person in second place, what place would you be in now?
Second
Sacramento is the capital of California. That hasn't always been so. Which city was briefly the first state capital?
San Jose
The one with six friends in New York.
Friends
A puzzle requiring the user to match the colors of 54 separate pieces into all six sides of a cube.
Rubik's Cube
What company, listed on the NASDAQ, is represented by the stock symbol MSFT?
Microsoft
A woman has six daughters and they each have a brother. How many children does she have?
Seven
Which state has the distinction of being the "Center of the Nation"?
South Dakota
Seven men protect a town called Four Corners from the bad element.
The Magnificent Seven
This late 1980s and early 1990s fad item was eventually taken off the market because the metal edges of this colorful, yet violent jewelry, proved to be sharp enough to draw blood.
Slap Bracelets
Which former President of the United States of America, when charged with lying about an illicit affair, told a grand jury, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is"?
William Jefferson Clinton
If a rooster is perched on the top of a barn with the barn roof sloping east and west, and just as the sun rises the rooster lays an egg, on which side of the barn will the egg roll?
Neither, roosters don't lay eggs
The first electric traffic light was installed in 1914. In which Midwest city was it installed?
Cleveland, Ohio
Four Vietnam veterans help people in need.
The A-Team
A set of Ray-Ban aviator sunglasses wrapped in military dog tags ... an obvious tribute to which 1986 Tony Scott movie?
Top Gun
If someone handed you a 'Quaich', what should you do with it?
Drink from it
(The 'quaich' is a small, shallow two handled bowl or drinking vessel originating in Scotland but may be based on early bowls used during the medieval period for collecting the product of 'blood-letting')
What is a five letter word which becomes shorter with two letters added onto its end?
Short
One can find a historic voodoo museum in which southern state?
Louisiana
"Dy-no-mite!" What show did this saying come from?
Good Times
This all time best selling coin-op game was inspired by a pizza with a piece missing.
Pac Man
In 1998, Wells Fargo began servicing the first ATM at McMurdo Station in which of the following areas?
Antarctica
A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains.
Dozens -> Dozen
Chester Greenwood was 15 years old when he invented a useful item to be worn outdoors in winter. What did he invent?
Earmuffs
"Who shot JR?" What show did this phrase come from?
Dallas
By a landslide vote, what famous person was elected mayor of Carmel, California in 1986?
Clint Eastwood
Which flower, famously sung about in a very popular musical, is depicted on the Austrian 2-cent coin?
Edelweiss