All Questions
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Which school is it?
Determine the hidden school thanks to:
1747 PB-OR-NI-TD-.G-.E
1st is the entry
2nd is related to 1848
3rd is a library
4th is related to 26
5th is financial
6th ...
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An Alien Lands - where?
This is a question of general knowledge though if anyone gets it without investigative effort I would be mightily impressed. All you need is in the text and you will then require some intuitive, ...
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Blunt Talk, Shrubby Barquentine
Clues:
I stand in the East, facing West in all directions
A day’s sail, just across the line
Unlucky year, a ship ran aground...
A different world, different age
Set the stage, elemental alias...
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A Seemingly Geographic Riddle
Selçuk, İzmir Province, Turkey.
Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey.
Yassıhüyük, Ankara Province, Turkey.
Sart, Manisa Province, Turkey.
???
İzmir, İzmir Province, Turkey.
Atalanti, Phthiotis, Greece.
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A Trivial Pursuit #01 (Geography 1/4): History
This is part 1 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
HERMITS ERECTED HER – SHE TOLD MERCHANT ALL
BEST AUTHOR ...
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"What sport is this medal table?" is back
On exactly the same spirit as "What sport is this medal table"
Can you find the values of the question marks in this medal table?
Three questions for you:
Is it related to the Olympic ...
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What sport is this medal table?
Can you find the values of the question marks in this medal table?
Three questions for you:
Is it related to the Olympic Games?
What are USA's medal numbers?
What are the four missing nations?
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The homeland of the shepherd?
$\displaystyle \left \lfloor \frac{Gen4:1-16} {a_5x^5+a_4x^4+a_3x^3+a_2x^2+a_1x+a_0} \right \rfloor$ + «my father was the first one»
= A country
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Where does my friend live? 3
Other questions in this series can be found here.
One of my friends in America has sent me some codes to show where he lives.
ROY, LYS, INI, RAC, NIL, ROE, RAM, YES, CIT, DOH, SAM, IHS
Can you ...
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Colouring the map of Canada
A previous question asked whether the map of the USA needs four colors.
Now, what about Canada? If you want to assign a colour to each province and territory, so that no two neighbours have the same ...
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What do Teignmouth, Paris, Ulm, Auxerre, Brunswick, Beaumont-en-Auge, and Ryazan have in common?
In the book Real World Haskell, there's a non-programming-related puzzle in a footnote at the bottom of page 15, in the middle of a simple text-processing problem:
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Find or create a text ...
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The thousand-year enigma
Three two and five versus one five and three twos,
sellable merchandise made out of these clues,
latter being northern the first's in the east,
country's name one thousand years back at least.
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Ever-changing nationalities
Make me Portuguese, and I live next door.
Make me Spanish, and I live in the same building.
Make me British, and I live far away.
Make me Dutch, and I live next door from there.
Make me French,...
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A mecca with bling
One word my city, it ends with a king;
two words my own name, a mecca with bling.
Three old trees decorate my hallowed doors,
four walls of aurum, a pool and two floors.
Five times nine ...
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A humble riddle
I am a triumph, a thundering wall;
a goddess, a ruler the grandest of all.
I loom over towers that can touch the skies;
few of world's waters can rival my size.
A landmass colossal, a forebear of ...
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Where am I? A scene of death
Hint (for those of you who are stuck):
In this question, I have given a total of 5 hints (or even more).
Once you have the answer, please include how these hints worked.
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Lost at sea. What is the ship's cargo?
While trapped at sea, a small fishing vessel desperately tried to reach another ship for assistance. Finally, a large ship appeared over the crest of a magnificent wave.
The crew members screamed for ...
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