Mission #3 1-2-3-4-5

[Garth Brooks]

Team 1
1. Garth Brooks 1

Team 2
1.David Palmer 4
2.Colin Firth 5

Team 3
1. Emma Watson 7
2. Peyton Manning 6
3. Paris Hilton 3

Team 4
1.
2.
3.
4. Regina Spektor 2

Team 5
1. Alyssa Milano 8
2.
3.
4.
5.

[Garth Brooks]

Team 1
1. Garth Brooks

Team 2
1.David Palmer
2. Colin Firth

Team 3
1. Pierce Brosnan
2. Peyton Manning
3. Paris Hilton

Team 4
1.
2.
3.
4. Emma Watson.

Team 5
1. Alyssa Milano
2.
3.
4.
5. Joel McHale

[Garth Brooks]

Team 1
1. Garth Brooks

Team 2
1.David Palmer
2. Colin Firth

Team 3
1. Pierce Brosnan
2. Peyton Manning
3. Paris Hilton

Team 4
1.
2.
3.
4. Emma Watson.

Team 5
1. Alyssa Milano
2.
3.Kristin Chenoweth
4.
5. Joel McHale

[Garth Brooks]

Team 1
1. Garth Brooks

Team 2
1.David Palmer
2. Colin Firth

Team 3
1. Pierce Brosnan
2. Peyton Manning
3. Paris Hilton

Team 4
1.
2.
3.
4. Emma Watson.

Team 5
1. Alyssa Milano
2. Colin Farrel
3.Kristin Chenoweth
4.
5. Joel McHale

[Garth Brooks]

Team 1
1. Garth Brooks

Team 2
1.David Palmer
2. Colin Firth

Team 3
1. Pierce Brosnan
2. Peyton Manning
3. Paris Hilton

Team 4
1. CM PLACED
2. Tina Fey BY
3. Amy HOST
4. Emma Watson.

Team 5
1. Alyssa Milano
2. Colin Farrel
3.Kristin Chenoweth
4. Emilie de Ravin
5. Joel McHale

[Garth Brooks]

Each team will have to solve 5 brain teasers. Each correct answer is worth $4,000 so up to $100,000 can be won in this mission. Each team has their own sub-board where you will solve the puzzles. You only have one guess per puzzle and so only the answer from the team leader (designated by the bold numbers) will count. Team leader, please give your answer in the form "The answer to puzzle [puzzle #] is [answer]." Each team will be eligible to win an exemption. All you have to do is solve all 5 riddles correctly. You have 24 hours for this mission. Good luck!
TEAMS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HELP OTHER TEAMS!!!

1) Jane is as old as Joan was when Jane was half as old as Joan is now. Four years ago, Jane was as old as Joan was when Jane was a third as old as Joan is now. How old will Jane be in two years?

2) Which word, when put into the blank, makes the following sentence true?
This sentence has _________ occurrences of the letter 'e.'

3) Which number follows in the sequence below?
1 49 162 5364 96481

4) There are 30 people at a party. All the men shake hands with each other, and all the women shake hands with each other, but no man shakes hands with a woman. If 219 handshakes were exchanged, and there are less women than men, how many men are at the party?

5) Which word fits in the blank?
rock : cure : menu
able : ___ : idle

[Garth Brooks]

Solutions:

1) Jane is as old as Joan was when Jane was half as old as Joan is now. Four years ago, Jane was as old as Joan was when Jane was a third as old as Joan is now. How old will Jane be in two years?

statement 1: Jane = Joan – (Jane – Joan/2) -> 4/3 Jane = Joan
statement 2: Jane – 4 = Joan – (Jane – Joan/3) -> 3/2 Jane – 3 = Joan
solving the system of equations yields their current ages as: Jane = 18, Joan = 24
in 2 years, Jane will be 20

2) Which word, when put into the blank, makes the following sentence true?
This sentence has _________ occurrences of the letter 'e.'

There are 9 e’s in the sentence already. However, nine doesn’t work since ‘nine’ has an e in it so would make a total of ten which would make the sentence false. ‘Ten’ is the correct answer, nine e’s plus one in ‘ten’ makes ten e’s.


3) Which number follows in the sequence below?
1 49 162 5364 96481

Rearranging the spaces yields a list of perfect squares: 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81. The next two are 100 and 121 so the 6 digit number is 100121.

4) There are 30 people at a party. All the men shake hands with each other, and all the women shake hands with each other, but no man shakes hands with a woman. If 219 handshakes were exchanged, and there are less women than men, how many men are at the party?

handshake formula: n(n-1)/2 actually a combination nC2 (n people taken 2 at a time)
if male = m and female = f; solve for m:
m(m-1)/2 + f(f-1)/2 = 219 and m + f = 30
if m > f then m = 18 and f = 12

5) Which word fits in the blank?
rock : cure : menu
able : ___ : idle

From Paris: It's lead. It works like this. If you were to examine the puzzle, you'd see that each of the first three words have letters in common,
rock:cure:menu
The function is that letters 1 and 3 of the first word becomes the 3rd and 1st letters in the second word, and that letters 2 and 4 of the third word become letters 4 and 2 of the second word. If you were to follow this function for the blank puzzle;
able:lead:idle





and now the results:

TEAM 1
puzzle 1: incorrect
puzzle 2: correct
puzzle 3: correct
puzzle 4: correct
puzzle 5: correct
$16,000
no exemption

TEAM 2
puzzle 1: correct
puzzle 2: correct
puzzle 4: correct
$12,000
no exemption

TEAM 3
puzzle 1: incorrect
puzzle 2: incorrect
puzzle 3: correct
puzzle 4: correct
puzzle 5: correct
$12,000
no exemption

TEAM 4
puzzle 1: incorrect
puzzle 2: correct
puzzle 3: correct
puzzle 4: incorrect
puzzle 5: incorrect
$8,000
no exemption

TEAM 5
puzzle 2: correct
puzzle 3: correct
puzzle 4: correct
$12,000
no exemption


TOTAL: $60,000