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Language Brain Teaser : Automobile Makes
Trivia Quiz: VH1's Top Ten Love Songs of All Time
Concentration
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Word of the Day : Hubris

Language Brain Teaser : Automobile Makes

Posted: 18 Jul 2021 05:00 PM PDT

Braingle's Daily Brain Teaser for Jul 19, 2021

Name the automobile makes:

1. river wading place
2. ringed planet
3. famous emancipator
4. weep convulsively
5. Star Wars action figure
6. earth wanderer
7. spotted cat
8. heavy metal
9. evade
10. diminutive
11. endlessness
12. bawl + disparaging remark

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Trivia Quiz: VH1's Top Ten Love Songs of All Time

Posted: 18 Jul 2021 05:00 PM PDT

Braingle's Daily Trivia Quiz for Jul 19, 2021

A Music Quiz : How well can you identify the 10 songs VH1 picked as the best love songs ever?

1. At #10, this song by Paul McCartney was dedicated to his wife and appeared on his first solo album (even before Wings!). Which of these songs was it?
2. At #9, this song was a movie title, and has been remade by Luther Vandross, Kenny Rogers, and Mariah Carey. The original song was a duet between Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie. Which of these songs was this?
3. Mariah Carey covered this #8 song in addition to the #9 song. Journey released this song in 1981, which told of two young lovers and their struggles to reconcile. Which of these songs was this?
4. Hailed as Elton John's best ballad ever, and "a near-perfect song" by Allmusic.com, which of these songs did VH1 proclaim the #7 best love song of all time?
5. At #6 on the list, this Celine Dion hit was the theme song for the movie "Titanic". Which of these songs was it?
6. The #5 song on VH1's list was performed by Whitney Houston, but was actually written by Dolly Parton in 1973. Whitney's version became one of the best-selling singles of all time. Which of these songs was this?
7. Coming in at #4 is a song by the Jackson Five, featuring a young Michael Jackson who later said this song solidified the Jackson Five's career. Which of these songs was this?
8. The #3 love song on the list is well known from a touching scene in the Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze film, "Ghost". The Righteous Brothers released this song in 1965. Which of these songs is it?
9. At #2, this song was a huge hit for Aerosmith, and was featured in Armageddon, a film starring lead singer Steven Tyler's daughter, Liv. Which of these songs was this?
10. This Elvis song was #1 on VH1's list, and was first heard on the Ed Sullivan show in 1956. Shortly after, Elvis released the single, and soon a movie of the same name. Which of these songs was this?

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Concentration

Posted: 18 Jul 2021 05:00 PM PDT

The ability to concentrate is an important skill for a creative thinker. Without concentration you will be unable to dig past the trivial things on the surface and get to the interesting stuff the lies beneath the surface.

If you are having difficulty concentrating on a task, try pretending that you are not having trouble. Ask yourself what it would feel like if you were able to concentrate. How would you be sitting? What would you be thinking? Try to think back to a time when you were able to concentrate. How did you feel then? What is different from how you feel now? You can often trick yourself into concentrating if you think about what it would feel like to be doing it.

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Anonymous Chess

Posted: 18 Jul 2021 05:00 PM PDT

Setup a chessboard in your workplace or home. Anyone should be encouraged to come up to the board, weigh the possibilities and make a move for either side. This is an ongoing game that will last for several days. Since anyone can play for either side, there are no winners or losers. In reality, everyone is a winner because this game introduces some novelty into the players' day and gives them a chance to exercise a different part of their brains. Often a workday can be filled with drudgery. This is a good way to liven it up a little.

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Word of the Day : Hubris

Posted: 18 Jul 2021 05:00 PM PDT

hu-bris

noun :: Exaggerated pride or self-confidence.

"It is the hubris of the CEO that lead to the loss of jobs and shareholder value."

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