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For the first time in their history as Major League Soccer rivals, the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers played to a 0-0 draw in a match where scoring chances were limited and neither goalkeeper was tested
2023-06-04 07:02

NYT's The Mini crossword answers for October 26
The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While
2023-10-26 18:21

The world's shortest IQ test will reveal your intelligence just in 3 questions
IQ tests offer a formula that allows you to compare yourself to other people and see how average (or above average) your intelligence is. The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is dubbed the world’s shortest IQ test because it consists of just three questions. It assesses your ability to identify that a simple problem can actually be harder than it first appears. The quicker you do this, the more intelligent you appear to be. Here are the three questions: 1. A bat and a ball cost £1.10 in total. The bat costs £1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? 2. If it takes five machines five minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? 3. In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Here is what a lot of people guess: 1. 10 pence 2. 100 minutes 3. 24 days These answers would be wrong. When you're ready, scroll down for the correct answers, and how you get to them: 1. The ball would actually cost 5 pence or 0.05 pounds If the ball costs X, and the bat costs £1 more, then it will be: X+£1 Therefore Bat+ball=X + (X+1) =1.1 Thus 2X+1=1.1, and 2X=0.1 X= 0.05 2. It would take 5 minutes to make 100 widgets. Five machines can make five widgets in five minutes; therefore one machine will make one widget in five minutes too. Therefore if we have 100 machines all making widgets, they can make 100 widgets in five minutes. 3. It would take 47 days for the patch to cover half of the lake If the patch doubles in size each day going forward, it would halve in size going backwards. So on day 47, the lake is half full. In a survey of almost 3,500 people, 33 per cent got all three wrong, and 83 per cent missed at least one. While this IQ test has its shortcomings – its brevity, and lack of variation in verbal and non-verbal reasoning - only 48 per cent of MIT students sampled were able to answer all three correctly. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-07-06 04:00

Matt Lauer's life away from spotlight is 'nothing at all like what it was' before 'Today' firing 6 years ago
The former TV show host was fired in 2017
2023-12-01 04:52

Chris Christie news – live: Ex-governor lashes out at Trump family’s ‘breathtaking grift’ in fiery 2024 launch
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie launched his campaign for president on Tuesday at a town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire. This is the second time Mr Christie has made a bid for the White House, the first being in 2016 when he lost to former president Donald Trump. Though Mr Christie lent his support to Mr Trump in 2016 when he dropped out of the race, he has since changed his opinion of the former president and become a vocal critic of Mr Trump. That was evident on Tuesday, as he denounced his former ally as a corrupt narcissist and vowed to draw blood in his quest for the Republican nomination. He did so several times during the town hall event, including at one point when he tore into the former president’s family for “breathtaking” levels of corruption and “grift” that he said followed them through the White House and beyond. The former New Jersey governor plans to position himself as a moderate Republican alternative to both Mr Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, while promising an aggressive campaign unafraid to punch at his rivals. Read More Chris Christie gave Trump legitimacy. Now he can’t stop Trump in 2024 Chris Christie targets his ‘divisive’ former friend Donald Trump as he sets up bitter 2024 battle Mike Pence suffered the wrath of Trump. Now the ex-vice president wants his old boss’s job in 2024
2023-06-07 16:39

Here's when your student loan payments will start again
After a more than three-year pause, borrowers will have to restart paying their federal student loan bills in October.
2023-07-01 01:08

Australia's ANZ Group and Suncorp seek review of $3.2 billion deal block
(Reuters) -ANZ Group and Suncorp Group said on Friday that they have filed separate applications to seek a tribunal review
2023-08-25 14:40

Top North Carolina senator says chances for more sanctioned gambling "better than 50-50"
One of North Carolina’s most powerful legislators is expressing optimism that further expansion of state-sanctioned gambling will be worked out before legislators leave for home later this summer
2023-07-14 03:30

Texas governor signs law shutting diversity offices at public universities
All state-funded colleges and universities in Texas will have to close their diversity, equity and inclusion offices under
2023-06-16 07:44

South Africa survive Argentina onslaught in Rugby Championship win
South Africa survived a second-half Argentina onslaught to win 22-21 in Johannesburg on Saturday and finish Rugby Championship...
2023-07-30 01:57

Pope Francis' trip to Mongolia in September will be closely watched by Russia and China
Pope Francis travels to the periphery of Roman Catholicism this summer when he becomes the first pontiff to visit Mongolia
2023-07-07 00:26

Laura Enever sets a new Guinness World Record for the biggest wave paddled into and surfed by a woman
Big wave surfer Laura Enever is the holder of a new world record for the biggest wave ever surfed via paddle.
2023-11-10 04:57
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