NOTE: Newest BTs in red, Bonuses in blue, comments in green, updates in purple.
- Mary’s mother had three daughters. The first two were named April and May. What was the name of the third daughter?
- A cheetah was clocked running 550 feet in 10 seconds. About how many miles per hour is that?
- Find a three-digit perfect square whose last two digits are its square root.
- Ninety-six is 37.5% of what number?
- What is a) the mean and b) the median of the first 10 prime numbers?
- Two dates are called ‘reciprocal dates’ if, when written as fractions, each is the other’s reciprocal. E.g., October 6 (10/6) and June 10 (6/10) are reciprocal dates. Not all dates have reciprocal dates (Sep 21, e.g.), and 12 days are their own reciprocal dates. (6/6, e.g.) In any given non-leap year how many days do NOT have reciprocal dates?
- A triangle’s hypotenuse is 13 units. One of the legs is 12. What is the triangle’s area?
- A history/culture trivia BT: Name a) the man and b) the woman who has/have appeared on the cover or TIME most often. (I mean, what is Google for, right?)
- My double exceeds my half by 2. Who am I?
- Find three consecutive integers whose sum (adition) equals their product (multiplication).
- Is it possible for a year to have two consecutive months with a Friday the 13th?
- True or false? An 8″ (radius) circular pizza has over twice as much pizza as a 6″ pizza of the same thickness. (Partial credit for correct answer [only]. Full credit for explanation.)
- (Repeat?) Can you find FIVE consecutive integers, none of which are prime? (Multiple answers possible?)
- If you draw a card from a ‘normal’ 52-card deck (no jokers), what’s the probability that the card you draw will be EITHER a heart OR a king?
Determine the value for “?” in the equations on the left. (Easier than it might look.)
16. Did you see the GARFIELD cartoon (see 10/24 at link) shared recently (today, for some of you) ? For an easy almost-freebie, how could the wish of the kid on TV have backfired on him? (multiple answers possible again?)
17. Possible multiple answers? (Supporting your answer helps.)
18. 
Bonus #1: How many states’ names can you string together so that the last letter of one becomes the first letter of the next? E.g., WyominG, GeorgiA, AlaskA, , . . . etc. (We’ll keep ongoing records here and everyone who sets, breaks, or ties a current record in a new way will be listed later.)
Bonus #2: See #10 above. There are actually THREE sets of triplets that satisfy this condition. Can you find the other two?
Bonus #3: See #13 above. What’s the largest such string (of non-prime [composite]) integers you can find? (The focus here is on YOU. Multiple correct answers possible.)
Bonus #4: See #17 above. What other attritbute(s) does/do the 3 numbers there share? (Guess what? Multiple answers possible.)
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