Questions tagged [knowledge]
A puzzle whose solution relies on external sources such as tables, dictionaries, Wikipedia, or specifics that may not be common knowledge.
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Who is my best friend?
It's that time of the month again,
For my best friend
And I feel slightly apprehensive.
I'm not sure whether this is all part of nature's Grand Scheme Of Things
My other friend, Dodge,
Thinks that ...
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Guess the poem!
The world suspends like puppets on a string
When I look away, the strings are
cut
It's like they're playing a game, because
every time I try to see them,
whenever I turn back around,
the world ...
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Words where "ea" = "ay"
There are 5 words in the English language (6 if we count "Eamon") where the letter combination "ea" makes an "ay" sound rather then an "ee" sound. What are they?
If you already know this please don't ...
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Guess the book character
His raiment was the color of the king of Doriath's cloak,
But now is the color of the Spirit of Fire's prized creations.
His weapon is from that which was betrayed by the Child of Twilight.
His ...
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James Bond : No Access
James Bond, while working on a top-secret case for many weeks in deep enemy territory, finally collected and stored lots of critical files on his tight-security Linux system. Even though the system ...
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Only Connect - Connect Wall #1
There's a well-known British game show called Only Connect, which tests your ability to come up with the connections to things which are very hard to relate.
One of the staples of the show is the ...
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The African elephant and the fly [closed]
This is from a republishing of an old taxonomy book.
An African elephant weighs 4536 kg.
A fly weighs 64.8 mg.
What is the weight of an African elephant with a fly on his head?
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A riddle by any other name
On his retirement, Bill Gates left behind a four number combination safe with a dial similar to this. In that safe is a secret that had eluded him many years ago...along with a small fortune of course....
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The queen of riddles
Every good story is build up of acts,
one of which is a tragedy,
they all convey a mystery,
how many there are is history,
by the time you know your destiny.
$ $
Destined for greatness ...
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Slumdog millionaire (6)
My Indian friend Jamal recently participated in the well-known TV quiz
show Who wants to be a millionaire?. You might have heard or read about Jamal's spectacular success; the media reported on it ...
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Calculate a mystery number: Add the number of United States …
You start with a mystery number from 1 to 100000.
Add the number of United States,
Divide by a quarter incense by sounding it out,
Subtract the month of Hallowe'en,
Take the square root of your ...
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Slumdog millionaire (5)
My Indian friend Jamal recently participated in the well-known TV quiz
show Who wants to be a millionaire?. You might have heard or read about Jamal's spectacular success; the media reported on it ...
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Arithmetic/Knowledge Step-By-Step Number Puzzle! (What Is The Final Answer?) [closed]
Start with the number of U.S. ounces in a U.S. gallon.
Subtract the atomic number for Samarium.
Add the amount of days in February on a leap year.
Multiply this by 6 factorial.
Divide this by pi ...
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Slumdog millionaire (4)
My Indian friend Jamal recently participated in the well-known TV quiz
show Who wants to be a millionaire?. You might have heard or read about Jamal's spectacular success; the media reported on it ...
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The 2015th question on Puzzling SE
At the time of posting, this was the 2015th question posted on Puzzling Stack Exchange, in the year 2015.
Take the number of multiples of 5 among the numbers featured in this puzzle.
Multiply it by ...
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Slumdog millionaire (3)
My Indian friend Jamal recently participated in the well-known TV quiz
show Who wants to be a millionaire?. You might have heard or read about Jamal's spectacular success; the media reported on it ...
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Slumdog millionaire (2)
My Indian friend Jamal recently participated in the well-known TV quiz
show Who wants to be a millionaire?. You might have heard or read about Jamal's spectacular success; the media reported on it ...
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Where are you going on holiday, Julian?
Mary asks: "Where are you going on holiday this year, Julian?"
Julian says: "What do you mean - this year? You know that I don't go every year.
I did not go at all in 2007. In Summer 2008 I went to ...
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Slumdog millionaire (1)
My Indian friend Jamal recently participated in the well-known TV quiz
show "Who wants to be a millionaire?"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Wants_to_Be_a_Millionaire). You might have heard or read ...
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A Suite of Thirteen (Company #4)
The following thirteen English words all share a certain property:
ACE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN JACK QUEEN KING
However, there is a fourteenth word that belongs to this group, ...
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An arcane property of independent countries
The following alphabetical list contains independent countries with a certain arcane property. (The list is complete to the best of my knowledge).
Algeria, Cambodia, Croatia, El Salvador, ????????, ...
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Italy is to Hungary as Netherlands is to France
This puzzle talks about a certain (clear and justifiable) relationship between certain independent countries. With respect to this relation, we have
Italy : Hungary = Netherlands : France = Austria ...
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Which are the missing dates?
Here are the dates for a series of events. As you can see, some of the dates are missing.
What are the missing dates. And what happened at these dates?
$~~~????,~ 1914,~ ????,~ 1939,~ 1958,~ ????,~...
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Start with an unlucky Friday
Start with an unlucky Friday number.
Multiply by the gables on Hawthorne's house.
Add the number that a stitch in time saves.
Add the number of blind mice.
Subtract the number of William Pene du Bois' ...
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A cryptic ranking of the US-states
I have ranked the US-states according to a certain cryptic property
and put them into a list. A contiguous piece of this cryptic list
looks as follows:
..., ?????, Nevada, West Virginia, Kansas, ...
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Who is the odd one out?
Nineteen of the following twenty famous persons share a very distinguished property, whereas the last one does not have this property:
Albert Camus, Elias Canetti, Bette Davis, Nadine Gordimer, ...
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An enigmatic partition of the chemical elements
I have partitioned the chemical elements into two groups based on a certain
property that is shared by some of them, but not by the remaining ones.
The following elements have my enigmatic property:
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Eight remarkable places
Something very remarkable connects the following eight geographic places.
What is it?
Bodaybo (Russia)
Cape Horn
Christchurch (New Zealand)
Cocos Islands
Ghanzi (Botswana)
Honolulu
Punta Peclas (...
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Distinguished country pairs
I guess that everybody here at puzzling.stackexchange is aware of the fact that Uzbekhistan and Liechtenstein are the only two countries in the world that are doubly landlocked and hence share a very ...
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Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Can you recover the following two dozens of (well-known) movie titles just from their initials?
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Three geographical entities
The following three statements describe a perfectly symmetric relationship
between certain geographical entities A, B and C. What are A, B and C?
A borders on all the B except the one named C.
C ...
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Our Honor is Unstained
Here are four photos from Google satellite maps and one from Wikipedia (see note 1). These photos show a family related by strength and endurance. The goal of this puzzle is:
to identify the proper ...
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Four letter puzzles on US states
Here are four questions on the letters in the names of US states and US state capitals:
What is the only US state that has no letter in common with it's capital city?
What is the only US state ...
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Canada and USA geography puzzle
From some US states, one may travel straight south and get into some
Canadian province or territory (of course without crossing the equator).
What are these nine "US state $\to$ Canadian province/...
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Country triples with two common points
In this puzzle, we only consider independent countries and we do not
count overseas territories as actual part of a country. We say that three countries form a well-connected triple, if each two of
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Country triples without common point
In this puzzle, we only consider independent countries and we do not
count overseas territories as actual part of a country.
We say that three countries form a well-connected triple, if each pair ...
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USA geography puzzle
Three US cities of over 100,000 inhabitants have the following characteristic:
they include a particular point from which, if you travel straight north, straight south, straight east, or straight west ...
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How many years old am I?
My age squared is the number of commandments in the Torah minus the year in George Orwell's Book. When subtracting, consider the cause of the Y2K problem.
How old am I?
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What is the northernmost country that borders the US to the South?
What is the northernmost country that borders the US to the South?
What is the northernmost country that borders the contiguous US to the South?
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The title of a song
The eleventh day of spring 26
The twelfth night of summer 74
The first night of autumn 80
The second day of winter 86
I have hidden 4 song titles in the sentences above. What are the song ...
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The Crown of the Torah
This should be an easy one if you have a Bible handy:
My name is Kether Torah,
the Crown of the Torah.
I am a pillar of righteousness,
and a foundation of mercy.
I am four, and three, ...
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