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As we go about our daily lives, we are constantly making decisions based on guesses and estimates. This exercise will help you improve your ability to make educated guesses about distance.

When you are estimating each answer, try to pay attention to how you are solving the problem. Are you guessing the whole number or are you trying to calculate it based on small...

sen-ten-tious

adj :: Short and pithy or full of maxims and proverbs.

"Presidential debates often deteriorate into sententious conversation and rehearsed talking points."

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The Mozart Effect is the notion that listening to classical music composed by Mozart can temporarily increase your IQ and enhance other mental functions. It is said that playing classical music to infants can improve their mental development. Some studies have shown that listening to Mozart can temporarily increase one's IQ by up to 9 points when given a spatial reasoning ...

Braingle's Daily Trivia Quiz for May 12, 2026

A Movies Quiz : I will give you a description of a horror movie, and you will choose an answer based on that description. Good luck!

1. This horror movie, made in 1931, features the famous quote, "It's alive!"
2. In this movie, a newlywed couple moves into a new house where a murder was previously c...

Braingle's Daily Brain Teaser for May 12, 2026

In a country, there are over 100 streets. Street 1 is named First Street, street 2 is named Second Street, and so on and so forth.

A traveller decides to walk through all these streets in the country. He could find all the streets except Street 62. No matter how hard he tried, he could not find it.