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Down Home Learning Center
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S-t-r-e-t-c-h
your Brain!
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Cryptoquiz: Colour Code
A cryptoquiz is a list of related words put into a simple code. You can spot familiar words by their pattern of repeated or double letters, and you can solve the rest if you remember that if F stands for A in one word, it will be the same throughout that list.
(Answers at bottom)
JMHLXYLC CLY
LAVENDER
FCQDOTXD KTJY
OFMCJLN FCLMD
TCMXKL BUQNL
GLJJTB QHTCG
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Try a Little TRIVIA
1 .In what year did Newfoundland become the tenth province? 2. Name the Best Picture Oscar winner of 1976. 3. What company manufactured the world's first disposable handkerchief? 4. What CFL team did Bud Grant coach? 5. Where did bowling originate? 6. In what year was the Hershey Bar introduced? 7. When did the Concorde make its first flight? 8. Who is the patron saint of England? 9. Who selected Ottawa as Canada's capital? 10. In what country did soccer originate? (answers at bottom)
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SECRET PHRASE
Some of the letters in the common phrase below have been filled in, and some have been left out. If, for example, a T appears in the phrase, all of the T's have been filled in. Clue: it's a secret; 4 words
___ ___ ___ W ___ ___ N ___ ___ ___ ___ N ___ M ___
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RIDDLES
1. What animal has antlers and eats cheese? 2. Five girls walked to school with one umbrella. How many got wet? 3. What do you get if you cross a turkey with a kangaroo? 4. What does the abominable snowman wear on Hallowe'en? 5. What does a duck eat for lunch? 6. What scary movie did Simple Simon star in? 7. What's the difference between a man with a missing slipper and a detective trailing a criminal? 8. What book is about famous animals? 9. Why did the old lady put roller skates on her rocking chair? 10. How many parents does a werewolf have?
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TRIVIA answers: 1. 1949 2.Rocky 3.Kimberly-Clark 4.Winnipeg Blue Bombers 5.Egypt 6. 1894 7. 1969 8. St. George
9.Queen Victoria 10.England
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CRYPTOQUIZ answers: red, crimson, gold, scarlet, cream, orange, white, yellow,
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SECRET PHRASE answer:
BETWEEN YOU AND ME
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RIDDLE answers: 1. Mickey Moose 2. None; it wasn't raining.
3. An animal you can stuff on the outside 4. A ski mask
5. Cheese and quackers 6. Pie-day the 13th 7. One suspects his dog, the other dogs his suspect. 8. Who's Zoo 9. She wanted to rock and roll 10. 5- one ma and 4 paws
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