I have a circular table I in the square corner of my room. There is also a rectangular heating duct that runs up the corner there. The heating duct is 1 foot wide and 6 inches deep. The tabletop fit exactly against the two walls and the corner of the duct that sticks out.

How big is the table?

What do the following words have in common? (The similarity has nothing to do with number of letters, vowels, consonants or syllables.)

MORE   PAIRS   MISER   AVENGE

Eric is driving his car to the airport to pick up his wife. At his current speed, he'll arrive on time. If he drives 5 miles per hour faster, he'll arrive 12 minutes early, but if he drives 5 miles per hour slower, he'll arrive 15 minutes late.

How far away is the airport?

The names of six people are hidden in the sentence below. Can you find them? (The letters are in consecutive order.)

He altered the tedium of the loud noises by sitting between two open windows.

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Supply the missing number:

   A  B  C  D   14
   B  C  D  B   13
   B  C  D  B   13
   B  C  D  D   11
   17 13 9  ?


Our local toy store prices its merchandise according to the owner's whim. A doll costs $.70, a train costs $.80, a drum costs $.70 and a dollhouse costs $1.40.

According to this system, how much will a jumping jack cost?

A census taker walks up to a house and asks the woman inside if she has any kids. "Three", she says. "And what are their ages?" asks the census taker. But the woman is suddenly suspicious and will only give the hint that the product of their ages is 36. The census taker still wanted more information, so she says that their ages add up to the number on the house next door. After a quick trip next door, the census taker asks for a third hint and the woman indicates that the oldest child plays the piano.

The census taker knows the ages of the children--do you?

Meg's local train station is one mile away from her house. It takes her 10 minutes to bike there. Today, Meg got a flat tire 12 minutes before the train is scheduled to arrive. Her maximum walking speed is 4 miles per hour.

Can she make the train on foot?

What's the next number in this sequence:

1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 4, 3, 4, 2

1. Carrie is twice as old as Jean. Five years ago, Carrie was three times as old as Jean. In five years, Jean will be three-fifths Carrie's age.

   How old are they now?

2. A well-known statement has been put into very fancy language below. Can you put it back into everyday English?

   Avian creatures embellished with identical or similar plumage have a strong tendency to associate with others of like appearance.

Some children visit the primate house at the zoo and bring along a bag of peanuts to feed to the chimpanzees, baboons and orangutans. After some discussion, the children realize they can't feed each monkey the same number of peanuts without having some left over. They also can't feed the same number to just the chimps and baboons, just the baboons and orangutans or the just the chimps and orangutans without having leftovers.

In fact, if they feed the same number of peanuts to just the 11 chimps, they'll have 1 peanut left over, if they feed the same number to just the 13 baboons they'll have 3 left over and if they feed the same number to just the 17 orangutans they'll have 8 left over.

What's the minimum number of peanuts the children have in the bag?