Mental Floss

1. What are the elusive characters; missing two letters or numbers?

W  A  T  E  __  M  __  L  O  N ?
(In other words, what letters go in the blanks? The answer is NOT R and E.)
2. 1961 was a special year (besides the fact that Mr. Coward was born then). In fact, the next time a year will be this special will be the year 6009. What is so special about those two years?
3. A person goes into the post office to mail a letter. She purchases two stamps and then asks the next person in line to put the stamps on the envelope. Why didn't she put the stamps on herself?
4. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
5. In each sentence below, an animal is concealed. For example, the sentence, "What shall I do, Gertrude?" has the word dog concealed. Find the hidden animal in each sentence.
• a) Horace tries in school to be a very good boy.
• b) People who drive too fast are likely to be arrested.
• c) For the Halloween party, John came looking like a radish.
6. When does 1+1+1=1?

Test #4