Exercise your brain - brain teasers for Quick Test your memory and thinking skills

Here's a quiz to test your memory of the brain and thinking skills, work should be important parts des Discover how! (Answers are below).

First - Name one sport in which neither the public nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

Second - What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

Third - Of all vegetables, can produce only two to live on their different growing seasons. All otherVegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

Fourth - What fruit has seeds outdoors?

Fifth - In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine, has been cut in any way. As the bulb must get the bottle?

Sixth - Starting only three words in standard English with the letters "DW" and all are common words. Name two of them.

Seventh - It 'There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. You can at least half of them?

8th - Name of a frozen vegetable or fruit that is never sold canned, processed, cooked or in any other form except fresh.

Ninth - Name 6 or more things you can wear standing start with the letter "S"

Answers to Quiz:

Before The only sport in which neither the public nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends: boxing

According to North AmericaLandmark constantly moving backward: Niagara Falls (the circle, after about two and a half feet each year because of worn million gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

Third, only two vegetables that can live to produce their own growth in different seasons: asparagus and rhubarb.

The fourth fruit with seeds outside: strawberry.

As the fifth bulb should go into the liquor bottle? It 'grew up in the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds whensmall and are wired in place on the premises. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, the stalks are left out.)

Sixth Three English words beginning with "DW" dwarf, dwell and fall.

Seventh Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation mark, quotation marks, parentheses, brackets, braces, and ellipses.

8th vegetables only, fruit or neveravailable frozen, canned, processed, cooked or in any other form but fresh: lettuce.

Ninth Six or more things you wear on his feet beginning with "S": shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

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Solving the puzzle Word - Nearly five points

Each word puzzle on rails, like a crossword puzzle can be big challenges, even the most experienced puzzle solvers us today. As long-time mystery writer, I will share some tips from the inside.

First Multiple meaning words

Just a name, a variety of meanings. Fair can mean 1) pleasing to the eye or mind - a pretty girl 2) non-storm - time 3) impartiality - a judge fair 4) is not dark - a light complexion, 5) is sufficient, but not sufficient - a fair amount of foodin refrigerator 6) A meeting of purchases and sales - an antiques fair 7) Carnival - the county fair 8) a baseball batted foul inside the lines - a fair ball, and many others.

So if you encounter a difficult crossword clue, consider that the answer to a word you already know, but with a meaning that is unusual. Can you guess an answer for this information? Hint: it has 7 letters.

Clue: a long and relatively narrow room, esp. one for public use, a fence or ornamental crestingEnvironment are the top of the table, desk, etc., made a passage of an animal. (Keep reading for the answer ...)

According to Spelling

Double-check the spelling of difficult words. Assuming that the key is to humiliate, for example. You decide the answer is embarrassing. But the puzzle requires a letter of response 9, and so the brain is about to start another word. A quick check of the dictionary or spell checker will tell you that embarrassment has made nine letters!

Consult a third referenceBook

If you really look up words and definitions in a dictionary, crossword dictionary, thesaurus, almanac, or a zillion online resources. Some puzzles that this is "fraud", but if you point to the answer key, rather than you call this? With a reference work in itself is an educational exercise. It is not always easy to know where to look, so it takes brains for research.

Fourth Pause

When you complete a puzzle darkened walkremoved. Move feed on a different, simpler puzzles, dog, or a walk. A relaxed brain is often easier to answer than one that the time has long been tense.

Keep it the fifth

Do not Quit! As to solve more puzzles can be solved. To increase vocabulary and learn the tricks for dealing with writer different puzzle. If you want a specific size puzzle you want to really solve a lot of them. But also try new formats. Research has shownthat brain health is improved, if we try new things.

The word of seven letters above the tunnel.

© Ann Richmond Fisher, 2008