Virtual Team Brainstorm: Brain Teaser Update!

We are up to 20 members now with the addition of our other 2 Franciscan Center receptionists:  Welcome Peggy Smith & Robin Shellabarger!

What a gorgeous sunny morning!  This week’s brain teaser is in honor of all the flowers that are starting to bloom on our beautiful campus.  I are going to test your green thumb & see if you can guess what the following flowers are!  Each of the clues make up a type of flower, for example "small container + to allow" would be "vial + let", or "violet."

Can you figure out these five?

1. an implement + flesh around mouth
2. foppish + a large carnivorous wildcat
3. to wed + a soft yellow element
4. a false statement + be deficient in
5. indicates an alternative + child

Answers are below…good luck & Happy Spring!

Kelly

Kelly Lance Team Captain

Virtual Team Brainstorm Update: Tim's Brainstorm Questions!

Good Morning Team Brain Storm!

I want to thank Tim Dressman for passing on the following brain teasers…  they are all great!  Let’s see how many of us are fooled by the answers!  Thanks again Tim!

1. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May...What was the third child's name? 2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers...What does he weigh? 3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered...what was the highest mountain in the world? 4. How much dirt is there in a hole...that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? 5. What word in the English Language...is always spelled incorrectly? 6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer...How is this possible? 7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg...Why not? 8. What was the President's Name…in 1975? 9. If you were running a race...and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?  10. Which is correct to say…”The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"? 11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field...how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?  All of the answers are below!  Good luck!  Have a great week!, Kelly Lance Here are the Answers 1. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April The second child was named May. What was the third child's name? Answer: Johnny of course 2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? Answer: Meat.3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn't discovered yet. [ You're not very good at this are you?]4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? Answer: There is no dirt in a hole.5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly? Answer: Incorrectly 6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible? Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere 7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not? Answer: You can't take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera to take pictures.8. What was the President's Name in 1975? Answer: Same as is it now - Barack Obama [Oh, come on...]9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now? Answer: You would be in 2nd. Well, you passed the person in second place, not first.10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"? Answer: Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow [Duh]11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field? Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big one.

Virtual Team Brain Storm: Brain Teaser!

It still doesn’t look much look or feel like Winter. Do you think we will have a White Christmas? I hope so!


This will be our last holiday brain teaser before Christmas. Let me know how you do! There are a few hints below the brain teaser if you need help.

My father gave me a brain teaser with two groups of words missing. The four words in each group are anagrams of each other. I've solved the first group, but I'm stuck on the second group. Can you help?

Time to decorate the Christmas tree! Putting up the lights was my job, but after that it was time to ENLIST some help. While the kids were busy adding TINSEL, I put on some music to LISTEN to; my favourite song is "SILENT Night".

After we finished decorating the Christmas tree, I hung the stockings on the __1__. Feeling a chill, I looked down and had to __2__ my __3__ lapse; the fire was out. I threw on my __4__ and stepped out into the cold night to gather some firewood. Upon my return, we were soon roasting chestnuts and sipping eggnog to complete a wonderful evening.
Hint

Here are definitions of the missing words:

1. a shelf above a fireplace

2. to express sorrow

3. relating to the mind

4. a cloak

Kelly Lance
Team Captain

                     










I would like to wish each of you a very Merry Christmas and many blessings for the New Year. May the Hope & Joy of God’s gift fill your hearts this Christmas. -Kelly

Answer


1. mantel

2. lament

3. mental

4. mantle

Virtual Team Brainstorm: Holiday Brain Teasers!

Good Morning Team Brain Storm:
I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family & friends. Now that the Christmas season is upon us I thought I would do a series of Holiday Brain Teasers. We are at 18 members…please invite your friends & family to join us!

I love listening to Christmas music so I thought I would focus on carols for our first Christmas brain teaser.

Below are ten clues, each of which relates to the first line of a different Christmas carol or song. Unlike the title of the teaser, these clues only have the first letters of each of the words.

Can you figure out what songs they are? I will give you the answer to the first one to get you started

Good Luck! Answers are below!
Kelly

1. CROAOF: A Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...)

2. IDOAWC

3. RTRNRHAVSN

4. GGROBAR

5. IHABCWY

6. ISMKSC

7. OTFDOCMTLGTM

8. FTSWAJHS

9. IBMBOJHSSOM

10. JBJBJBR

Kelly Lance
Team Captain

Answers:

1. A Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...)

2. White Christmas (I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...)

3. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose...)

4. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (Grandma got run over by a reindeer...)

5. Blue Christmas (I'll have a blue Christmas without you...)

6. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus...)

7. The 12 Days of Christmas (On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...)

8. Frosty, the Snowman (Frosty, the snowman, was a jolly, happy soul...)

9. I'm Gettin' Nothin' for Christmas (I broke my bat on Johnny's head, somebody snitched on me...)

10. Jingle Bell Rock (Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock...)

Virtual Team Brain Storm: Update!

Kelly Lance Team Captain

Team brain Storm is now at 19 members with the addition of our most recent member, Denise. Welcome Denise!
Here is our Brain Teaser for the week: Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship. The letter can be taken from either the first or second word. I have included hints this time! Hints and answers are below.



1. Our - Start

2. Strip - Tumble

3. Clause - Idea

4. Cash - Broom

5. Plight - Lam

Hint


1.Sharp taste

2. Lurch

3. Movement; belief

4. Noise

5. Beacon

Answer

1. Sour - Tart

2. Trip - Stumble

3. Cause - Ideal

4. Crash - Boom

5. Light - Lamp


This week, Debra Stewart submitted research for us to look at titled “Negative Effects of Item Repetition”. From Debra: “Attention-likelihood theory assumes that different classes of stimuli, such as words that are high versus low in frequency within the English language, evoke differential amounts of attention at encoding, which translates into differences in the number of features that are examined and marked.”

Virtual Team Brain Storm Update!

This week Team Brain Storm studied how exercise can improve brain function.




Check out this research:
In aging humans the cortex and hippocampus atrophy [19] and memory function declines [20]. These deleterious consequences of aging might be attenuated by exercise [6]. Physically fit aged individuals, identified by self-report of activity level, performed better on measures such as reasoning, working memory, vocabulary and reaction time than their sedentary counterparts [21]. (Pragg, 2009)

For full abstract and text email Debra at stewartd@stleonard.net

One more exciting update -Kelly Lance is the new Team Captain for Team Brain Storm!