a) What makes a man twist his head? A pretty girl? A lovely friend? Or …….......……
b) What does a dumb/mute man to talk? ...........................
c) A thief stole a bell from a church and put it into an oven. What is the
name of the picture/movie? Answer only in Portuguese!!! ..........................
d) If three rats run away from three cats in three minutes, in how many minutes a hundred rats will run away from a hundred cats? ………………………
e) If a person has lunch in twenty minutes, how many minutes a hundred
people will do that? ....
f) Which is the specie of monkey that adore to hear Argentinean music? .................
g) Which specie of monkey would serve (or help) a carpenter? …..........................
h) If an electrical train goes
to north; where it’s smoke will go to?
.......................
i) What specie of animal can jump higher than a house? .............................
j) Some months have thirty days, others have thirty–one. How many months have 28 days? ……
Only for experts … the following numbers estão contidos no book (and movies) The Da Vinci Code: what numbers correctly fill the spaces? .São conhecidos como os Números de Fibonacci:
{one, one, two, three, five, ….. , thirteen, twenty-one, …………,
fifty-five.}
The ace (o gabarito) !!!
a) the neck! (O pescoço)
b) It's tongue (A língua)
c) O Assassino!
d) In three minutes, too!
e) In twenty minutes too!
f) O orangoTANGO.
g) O macaco PREGO
h) An electrical train doesn't produce smoke!
i) Did you see a house jumping in Olympic Games??? Oh, NO!!! Houses don't jump!!! Then, it's elementary my Dear Watson!! Every animal that can jump, jumps higher than a house!!!
i) All months have tenty-eight days!!!.
j) The Da Vinci Code??? Try a little more!!! I'll post the answer soon!!! (The Code's Secret is: ( The first number is 1 + 1 = 2; The second number is 1 + 1 (o número anterior) é = a 2; The third number is 2+ o número anterior, que é 1 + 2 =3; The fourth number is 3+ o número anterior(2) --> 3 + 2 = 5; ENTÃO: 3 + 5 = ??? it's EIGHT...)
A segunda incógnita is 13 plus 21 = thirty-four. E... 34 + 21 = 55)
c) O Assassino!
d) In three minutes, too!
e) In twenty minutes too!
f) O orangoTANGO.
g) O macaco PREGO
h) An electrical train doesn't produce smoke!
i) Did you see a house jumping in Olympic Games??? Oh, NO!!! Houses don't jump!!! Then, it's elementary my Dear Watson!! Every animal that can jump, jumps higher than a house!!!
i) All months have tenty-eight days!!!.
j) The Da Vinci Code??? Try a little more!!! I'll post the answer soon!!! (The Code's Secret is: ( The first number is 1 + 1 = 2; The second number is 1 + 1 (o número anterior) é = a 2; The third number is 2+ o número anterior, que é 1 + 2 =3; The fourth number is 3+ o número anterior(2) --> 3 + 2 = 5; ENTÃO: 3 + 5 = ??? it's EIGHT...)
A segunda incógnita is 13 plus 21 = thirty-four. E... 34 + 21 = 55)
According the authors and your score, you are ….
10 – genius – listen to CBN, read the best newspapers, and watch Discovery Cannel.
9 – Fan of Culture TV 8 – Master (mestre) 7 – Graduated student
6 – High school student 5 – Primary student. 4 – Preschool student
3 – Nursery (crèche) student 2 – Run away of the school 0 – Portuguese.
New challengers - for beginners and masters, too!
1.
(FaFi-BH - Adapted). During Second World War the Allies captured a Nazistian
concentration field and they rescued 979 prisoners. 527 were with measles, 251 with
tuberculosis and 321 didn't have any of those two diseases.
Quantos
prisioneiros tinham as duas doenças? .......................................
Which the number of prisoners with the two
diseases? ………………………….
2 – A red car starts from
Gama City to Goiânia in a medium velocity of sixty kilometers per hour at nine
a. m. Another car, a blue one, starts from
Goiânia City to Gama in an average speed of eighty kilometers per hour, one
hour before. Consider the
distance between the two places with two hundred and forty kilometers.
a) A que
horas o carro vermelho chegará no destino?..................................
b) A que
horas o carro azul chegará no destino?
……………………………
3 – A man traveled
to other city. He has to rent a car. The value depends of the distance that he will use. The price is composed of
two parts: (have/has = ter; travel = voyage)
-– 1st part
– a fixed price of R$ 40,00 daily (every
day);
–- 2nd part – Cr$ 0, 50 by kilometer
voyaged.
a) How much ele
paga by a car que voyaged four hundred kilometers em um day? ……….
b) Alguém paga R$ 180,00 pelo aluguel de um car
in one day.
How many kilometers a pessoa voyaged nesse car?
…………………………..
4 - From PAS/UNB
“On a road to Saint Ives
I met a man with two wives
Every wife had two sacks
Every sack had two cats
Every cat had two kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives
How many were on the road to St. Ives?”
5 - 2ND
VEST/UNB/2OOO.
The following document illustrates a public servant’s pay–slip in which
some of the values were omitted
(X, Y and Z). All values are in
dollars.
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P
U B L I C S E R V I C E
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P A Y - S L I P (Month =
MAY, 2000)
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Identification
B. Smart
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Government
Department
Ministry of Culture
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ITEMS
SPECIFICATIONS
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EARNINGS
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DEDUCTIONS |
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GROSS SALARY
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2,500.00
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HOUSING ALLOWANCE
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500.00
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FAMILY ALLOWANCE
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1,000.00
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FEDERAL TAX
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250.00
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SOCIAL SECURITY
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X
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HEALTH INSURANCE
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125.00
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TOTAL
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4,000.00
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Y
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NET PAY z
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Considering that Mr. Smart spends 2% of his month “NET PAY” on leisure activities, find out, in dollars, such amount (without the cents, if any) given that X corresponds to 15% of the “GROSS SALARY”.
6) A medic gives (dá)
you five pills to drink (tomar/beber) in intervals of thirty minutes. In how many times
(em quanto tempo) will you drink the five pills?
……… (Resolva este problema (drawing) desenhando uma (timeline) na "linha do tempo"; como requerem os problemas de "intervalo".
7) You have a
match (fósforo) and enter in a cold (frio/a)
and dark (escuro/a) room which (que) has an oil warmer (aquecedor), a gas lamp, and a candle (vela).
Which one do you fire/light /inflame (acende) firstly? ………………………………
8) Take (pegue) two
of three apples. How many apples do you have? ……
9) How many animals of each (cada) specie
Moses transported in the Arc? ………
10) A farmer (fazendeiro) had
(tinha) 17 cows. All (todas) they died (morreram), less (menos) nine. How many alive (vivas)
cows are there (há) in the farm? ……….
