Dean's Games

Which is the only country in the world to contain no letters from the word “gravity”

Answer
Sweden

There are two geese in front of a goose, two geese behind a goose and a goose in the middle. How many geese are there?

Answer
Three!

Some capital letters have areas that can be shaded in. For example, the whole of “O” or the loop at the top of “R.”

Which is the only country with a name in which (when written in capital letters) only the middle letter has an area that can be shaded in?

Answer
ITALY

Take the word “STARTLING.” (9 letters)
Remove one letter from it, leaving a valid 8-letter word.
Then remove another letter, to leave a valid 7-letter word.
Keep going leaving valid words with 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 letters.
Remember each word must be valid. No need to change the order of the letters.

What are the nine words?

Answer

STARTLING
STARTING
STARING
STRING
STING
SING
SIN
IN
I.

In this multiplication there are five different digits represented by the letters A to E.

Which four digit number ‘ABCD’ when multiplied by ‘E’ gives ‘DCBA’ as the answer?

Each letter represents a different digit. So if ‘A’ is ‘1’ then ‘B’ cannot also be ‘1’.

So … ABCD x E = DCBA. Which digit does each letter represent?

Answer

A is 2
B is 1
C is 7
D is 8
E is 4

2178 x 4 = 8712

A special question to commemorate half a century since the fab four went their separate ways.

Answer

 1) Can't Buy Me Love
 2) Day Tripper
 3) We Can Work It Out
 4) I Want To Hold Your Hand
 5) Hello Goodbye
 6) All You Need Is Love
 7) From Me To You
 8) Yellow Submarine
 9) Magical Mystery Tour
10) Back In The USSR

In 1946, Good Friday fell on Easter Monday. How could this be?

Answer
"Good Friday" was a racehorse.

It ran in the Irish Grand 
National on Easter Monday 
1946 (the day after Easter 
Sunday) and fell.

In an Easter field there is a mixture of rabbits and chickens.
There are 5 times as many ears visible in the field as there are beaks.
There are 144 legs.

How many of each type of animal are present?

Answer
30 rabbits and 12 chickens

Which of the four shapes belongs in the dashed box?

Answer
It's B. 

What are the next three words in this sequence (in order)?

blue green indigo orange

Answer
red violet yellow

These are the seven colours of the rainbow in alphabetical order.