Author: deanj

In a normal deck , how many playing cards have names made of unique letter (no repeats)?
(Ignore the “the”).

Answer
5

king of hearts
eight of clubs
ten of clubs
king of clubs
joker

I’m holding a playing card.

It’s name contains all 5 vowels.

Which card is it?

(Ignore the “the” before any names).

Answer
Queen of Diamonds

Name a word whose first, second and last letters are successive letters in the alphabet.

So… if your word begins with an “A”, the second letter must be a “B” and the last letter must be a “C”.

If you’re feeling clever, go for more than one word but, be warned, it’s harder than you think and there are only a dozen such words in the whole English language.

Try going for well known ones rather than obscure words.

Answer
absolutistic
deaf
debrief
effacing
effecting
effectuating
effusing
ghazi
ghiberti
ghibli
northrop
northrup

There’ll be lots of barbecues taking place tonight. It’s often abbreviated to “BBQ”.
There are TWO well known English words which contain two “B”s and a “Q”.
They begin with different letters.
Name BOTH of them.

Answer
Quibble 
Squabble 

Squibb also works.

Of course you could
just add "s" on the end
(and similar) to turn
them into similar words
but this isn't in the
spirit of the game!

A pet shop assistant is sent off to the wholesaler – by his boss – with £100. He is ordered to come back with exactly 100 animals and no change.
When he gets there, they only have three types of animal left:

Rabbits cost £8
Mice cost £3
Goldfish cost 50p

What is the lowest number of goldfish the assistant could have returned with having succeeded on his mission? He returns with at least one of each of the three types of animal.

Answer
1 rabbits,
17 mice, 
82 goldfish.
 

On the table in front of me I have £8.89
Each denomination (type!) of coin used is there in the same number.

So, for example, if I’ve used 1p, 5p and 50p pieces there is the same number of each of them.

What coins are in front of me?

Answer
SEVEN of each of..
pound coin, twenty, five and 
two penny pieces. 
(£1.27 x 7 = £8.89)

On a cooked breakfast:
        42 people have Danish bacon,
        65 have fried eggs and
        22 have baked beans,

how many people have espresso coffee?

Answer
53

Why?
Take the first letter 
of each word and loot 
at their position 
in the alphabet. 
So espresso (5th letter) 
coffee (third letter).

Today is the Summer Solstice and, therefore the longest day (ie. most daylight). Which country has the longest name containing NO letters from the word “solstice”?

Answer
Paraguay (8 letters)

Which is the only country in the whole world to have the same first two letters and last two letters?

Answer
Seychelles

In a wildlife documentary this week, Sir David Attenborough used the line “The Sea Eagle makes good use of its enormous ******** as it flies over the river in which the salmon are ********.”

The two disguised words are anagrams of each other.
What are they?

Answer
wingspan / 
spawning.