A Riddle

"We are in everything, but not in nothing.1 of us is in English and French, but not in Spanish.3 of us are in Geometry, but not in Calculus. 3 of us are in veranda and 1 of us is in balcony. Who are we?"

Do you like this riddle? I made it myself! I was inspired by a puzzle book called The Greatest Puzzles Ever Solved. Here are some puzzle books I really like:

   

Answer to riddle in next post! Hee, hee, hee.

The Sentence Without An "e"

I just thought of a sentence that does not have a single "e" in it:

A thousand cats sitting on chairs.

What I Learned Today

German

Henning's Haus is a fun, German website with nice games. One of them is called Who's Who. There will be pictures of people along with their names. There's a Mystery Person...who is one of the people pictured. Your job is to find out who the person is by asking for clues in German e.g. Do you have red hair? (Hast du rote haare?). In the end, you are done when all the pictures except one are deleted. The person left is the Mystery Person. Click on the Question Mark to find out who it is.



Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs by Ken Jennings

I learnt about how Ken Jennings finally qualified for Jeopardy!. He did this by completing a test that had some of the more difficult material. I also learned that Ken Jennings used to play a game that was a lot like Jeopardy! when he was in college. The game was called Quiz Bowl. In Quiz Bowl, you use buzzers and the only difference between Jeopardy! and Quiz Bowl is that you can ring in anytime you know the answer to a clue. In Jeopardy! you have to wait until the clue is read out.

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

My Mom and I have read until Chapter 7. So far, Nat Bowditch, the main character, has been indentured into ship chandlery. Indentured means to stay in a company for a few years as an apprentice. Chandlery means a place that sells small things.

So far, I like this book. I like the adventures that befall Nat. Nat is also extremely smart.




I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World by Jag Bhalla*

This book is about idioms from around the world. The author puts all the idioms into categories like Health and Animals and subcategories like Canines, Felines and Birds. Here are a few idioms that I really like:

"She swallowed her birth certificate" (she died)
"To get your jaws dislocated" (to die laughing)
"To be peeled as a banana" (to die laughing)
"Ducks are falling already roasted"(it's scorching hot)
"Those waiting for ducks to fall already roasted will be waiting a very long time" (a Chinese proverb meaning: nothing will come immediately to you)

*Mom's note: Parental preview strongly encouraged.

What I Learned Today

Mad Science by Theodore Gray

Some of the pages I read were pages 17 - 19 on Making Salt the Hard Way and pages 20-22 on Cooking at -320F. Cooking at -320F is about making ice cream using liquid nitrogen. The liquid nitrogen freezes the ice cream mixture and does it so quickly that there is no grainy texture. Liquid nitrogen gives the ice crystals that give the grainy texture no chance to form.

German (Language Arts: German, 100+ Series) by Kelly Morris

I completed pages 15 - 17 on Weather and Family terms. Some words I learnt are die Sonne (the sun), der Regen (the rain), der Vater (the father), die Tochter (the daughter) and der Onkel (the uncle).

Today, I also played a game from a website called Planet Science. I created a planet on the website and called it Aaargh!. It had a safe orbit around the Sun, had a suitable distance to support life, had the correct atmosphere to support life and it had the correct kind of surface and also, a good spin and tilt to make it stable. It also had a moon. The game is called Planet 10. Try it if you like!