BRAIN TEASERS

1) ‘What did everyone buy at the market?’ asked Anne. ‘I didn’t buy the fan, Anne, and I believe one of Fran or Dan bought the can’, replied Stan. ‘Neither Anne nor Fran bought the pan’, said

Dan. ‘The only way Dan can have bought the pan is if Fran bought the flan’, said Anne. ‘If Stan bought the pan, then Dan has to have bought the fan’, added Fran. What did each person buy?

2) Which two words meaning ‘appeal’ and ‘certain’ combine into one meaning ‘happiness’? 3) Find the cattle breeds in these anagrams: a) Minus Oil, b) Began Undersea, c) Rail Chaos.

4) Alice the astronomer spots a comet on a collision course with Earth, travelling at a speed of 3 million miles per day. It’s 84 million miles away. Two days later, a missile is fired at the comet. The missile travels at 750,000 miles per day. Will the missile reach the comet before the comet hits Earth?