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QUIZ CORNER (\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)
1. Animal Fund Test:
Find a 14 letter world in this anagram by rearranging the
letters.
2. A rich Arab Sheikh provides in his will that 50% his
estate to be divided among his 6 sons in equal shares , and
25% of the estate among his four wives in equal shares and
remaining 25% of his estate among his 5 daughters in equal
shares. Thus share of a daughter comes to 9 million less
than a wife.
Can you tell the amount of estate and individual shares for
sons, daughter and wife as provided in the will?
3. When a letter is added to any one of the following
words that will convert another word (in some order of the
letters will change). Find five different letters and five pairs
of words changed by them. Each letter converts two words.
Able, Bet, car, hot, ice,
last, lost set, Seat, same
Compiled by Shah N. Khan
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For answers see below.
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QUOTABLE QUOTES
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with
candor but to regard those of your friends with polite
incredulity.
Russell Lynes (b. 1910), U.S. editor, critic. “The Art of
Accepting,” in Vogue (New York, 1 Sept. 1952).
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It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states,
and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
Georg Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher. The
Philosophy of History,“Introduction,” sct. 3 (1837).
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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that
their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as
if they believe that the world is always contemplating their
individual charms and virtues.
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–65), English novelist. Lady Cumnor,
in Wives and Daughters, ch. 50 (1866).
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The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Francis Picabia (1878–1953), French painter, poet. 591
(Paris, 21 Jan. 1952; repr. in Écrits, vol. 2, “1950–1953,” ed.
by Olivier Revault d’Allones and Dominique Bouissou, 1978).
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less
lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), French author. Clément, in
Justine, ou les Malheurs de la Vertu (1791).
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we
can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–74), Anglo-Irish author. Sir William
Honeywood, in The Good Natur’d Man, ac
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Solution to the Quiz Corner _(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_(\_/)_
1) Fundamentalist
2. Total estate is worth 720 Million
Each son gets, 60 Million, each wife 45 million and each
daughter 36 Million
3. By adding letter T, Able and set are converted as table
and test.
Seat and last are converted as beast and blast by adding
letter B
Lot and hot are convered as lost and shot by adding letter S.
Cart and same are converted as chart and shame by adding
letter h.
Bet becomes bent and ice becomes nice by adding letter N
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