ArcaMax

How can you divide a pizza into 8 equal slices using only 3 straight cuts?

Hint: Think three-dimensionally!

I'm a word of letters four with close ties to snow.
Just half of my first my third letter will show.
One fifth of my fourth my first you may call.
Of my second 'tis best to say nothing at all.

What word am I?

What do the following words have in common?

CHOICE
CHIDE
OBOE
BOX
OXIDE

What do the following words have in common, besides the fact that they're all three letters long?

CAN
BYE
BOO
TOM

Which does not belong?

LOVE
ZILCH
GOOSE EGG
EPISODE
NIL
DUCK

What comes next?

0, 15, 30, 40, __

Which of these words does not belong?

EMBARASS

WIERD

PRONUNCIATION

OCCURANCE

DEFINATE

A, who knows only French, publishes an article in an English magazine. At the end of the article are the following 3 footnotes:

1. I thank my friend B for translating the above article into English so that it could be published in this magazine.

2. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.

3. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.

Why are there only 3 footnotes when logically, A will have to go on forever to be able to thank B properly???

What drink does this represent?

180 degree arc
360 degree arc
180 degree arc
A

180 degree arc
360 degree arc
90 degrees lines
A

What phrase is represented below?

HEA wooden stick + sulphur head + phosphorus tip VEN

Answer the following with parts of the body. The first one is free!

1. A strong box (chest)
2. Heard in congress while voting
3. Baby cows
4. A shellfish
5. A unit used to measure distance
6. Scholars
7. Part of a shoe
8. What every builder must have
9. Something made by whips
10. What soldiers carry

Can you decipher the musical instruments represented below?

1. P O

2. BA BA

3. ECLART

4. @ # $ %

Using real names to make common words, name the offspring: (the first one is free!)

1. Mr and Mrs Voyant - Clare (as in Clairvoyant)
2. Mr and Mrs Tress
3. Mr and Mrs Nasium
4. Mr and Mrs Tate
5. Mr and Mrs Anthemum
6. Mr and Mrs Mander
7. Mr and Mrs Mite
8. Mr and Mrs Time

A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have the initial sounds switched to form new words. For example, "loose morals" is a spoonerism for "moose laurels"(note that the pairs do not have to be spelled the same - only sound the same) From the definitions below can you figure out the following spoonerisms?

A quiz about a celebration....an irritating person that is never punctual

An irritated facial expression....The top of Mr. Avalon's head

A prideful diminutive insect....An ill-behaved sombrero

Hollandaise is one....Going from one side of the street to the other in a bad part of town