See If You Can Guess the Missing Words Represented by the Letters
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Abbreviation Puzzles See if you can guess the missing words represented by the letters. Example: 66 B in the B Would be 66 Books in the Bible
1 6 F's on a D 2 S W and the 7 D's 3 650 S in the H of C 4 46 B in the O T 5 70 MPH (S L on M) 6 762 MPH (S of S at S L) 7 2001 a S O 8 13 in a B's D 9 12 D's of C 10 3 F in a Y 11 57 H V 12 30 D H S A J and N 13 6080 F in a N M 14 366 D's ina L Y 15 29028 F (H of E) 16 70 T S and T 17 32 D F (F P of W) 18 11 P's in an F T 19 54 C's in a D (I J) 20 36.9 D C (B T) 21 70 P for a C TV L 22 6 F in a F 23 -273 D C (A Z) 24 G and the 3 B's 25 240 V (M V) 26 7 D's in a W 27 7 W's of the W 28 100 P in a p 29 147 M B in S 30 24 C (P G) 31 the 10 C's 32 40:40 D in T 33 18 H on a G C 34 3 P's for a S D 35 101 D's 36 12 S of the Z 37 88 K on a P 38 4 S of the Y 39 64 S on a C B 40 90 D in a R A Abbreviation Puzzles Page 2 41 4 H of the A 42 360 D's in a C 43 2 W's in a F 44 2's C, 3's a C 45 7 D S 46 3 C's in a F 47 5280 F in a M 48 112 P in a H 49 11 is S F (on the B S) 50 8 B H (in E) 51 4 P of the M 52 38 P by S 53 S of the B in 1789 54 570: B of M 55 26 L in the A 56 4 C of C E (W, R, G, O) 57 14 P in a S 58 25 C: L of a S B 59 1 A N of H 60 J C 39th P of the U S 61 M; 1000 in R N 62 50 Y of M (G A) 63 A S in T S 9 64 221 B B S, H of S H 65 the W H; 1 P A 66 9 S by W 67 27 F, W of a T S C 68 1 F O the C N 69 12 L of H 70 4 G in the N T 71 15 M of the U N S C 72 16 O in a P 73 979 M, H of A F 74 31 D in J 75 40075 K, E C of E 76 the F of the 5000 77 the A W in 2 by 2 78 2 C in a F 79 84 C C R 80 10 L on the L U Abbreviation Puzzles Page 3 81 60 Y for a D J 82 100 Y in a C 83 1 G L for M 84 2 T D 85 3 B M (S H T R) 86 4 P of the C 87 5 C on the O F 88 6 H a D 89 7 W of the A W 90 8 P in a G 91 9 P of the S S 92 10 G B H on the W 93 13 S on the A F 94 15 M on a D M's C 95 21 S in a G 96 24 B B in a P 97 29 D in F (in a L Y) 98 39 S 99 40 D and N of the G F 100 52 W in a Y 101 76 T in the B P 102 100 C in a D 103 200 P for P G in M 104 600 R in to the V of D 105 1000 W that a P is W 106 1001 A N 107 1000000 M for O of Y S 108 666 the N of the B 109 3 L M from S A W 110 4 L on a L C History Quiz The initials stand for something that happened in that year, for example 1066 BofH would be Battle of Hastings. Year Clue Answer? 1900 BofQEtheQM 1901 DofQV 1902 LofHandGbyEE 1903 FFoftheWB 1904 PPbyJMB 1905 C-B - PM 1906 SFEandF 1907 S of A-R-E 1908 DL-G-CoftheE 1909 PRtheNP 1910 AofGV 1911 ARtheSP 1912 SofT 1913 WWEAP 1914 AofAFFatS 1915 GL 1916 BoftheS 1917 RR 1918 EofFWW 1919 LNA-FWMP 1920 PinUSA 1921 EWNPinP 1922 DoftheTofTinE 1923 FWFACF-WbyBW 1924 DofL 1925 MKbyAH 1926 GS 1927 F T P - the JS 1928 GZ C the A 1929 WSC 1930 DofthePP 1931 C of the E S B 1932 O of the S H B 1933 A H, C of G 1934 I of D T in B 1935 P and B by G 1936 JM 1937 MofDofWandWS 1938 MA 1939 OPB of PC by TSE 1940 D 1941 JAonPH 1942 F B of DID 1943 S of I 1944 D-D 1945 A B D on H 1946 AGYG by IB 1947 M of PE and PM 1948 BAL 1949 D of a S by AM History Quiz Page 2 1950 B of PA 1951 FofB 1952 FP of the M 1953 F A of ME 1954 RAtheCbyBH&theC 1955 IofCTinB 1956 SC 1957 L of S by USSE 1958 FPMinL 1959 FMinB 1960 'W of C' S by HM 1961 FMSFbyYG 1962 DofMM 1963 GTR 1964 CBMLbytheB 1965 IofSMPHSL 1966 EWWC 1967 FHTObyCB 1968 AofMLK 1969 FMontheM-NA 1970 DofGdeG 1971 DD 1972 SJB-PL 1973 MofPA&CMP 1974 RofRN 1975 EofVW 1976 V1 L on M 1977 VWWWSatW 1978 B of F T T B 1979 MT - PM 1980 EofMSH 1981 M of PC and LDS 1982 FW 1983 F B T in B 1984 B al GH in B 1985 O of F from S to G 1986 E in N R at C 1987 RB - F H AB F across A 1988 B on P-A B over L 1989 O of B W 1990 BY - P of R 1991 ODS in the GW 1992 SG and LC W 0 G 1993 JP, D - SS 1994 TB - L P L 1995 FGW60 1996 R - 0 B 0 G in A 1997 D of PD 1998 GFA for NI 1999 CofMDI? Lateral Thinking Puzzles
1. In the middle of the ocean is a yacht. Several corpses are floating in the water nearby.
2. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice all live in the same house. Bob and Carol go out to a movie, and when they return, Alice is lying dead on the floor in a puddle of water and glass. It is obvious that Ted killed her but Ted is not prosecuted or severely punished.
3. A woman comes home with a bag of groceries, gets the mail, and walks into the house. On the way to the kitchen, she goes through the living room and looks at her husband, who had blown his brains out. She then continues to the kitchen, puts away the groceries, and makes dinner.
4. A body is discovered in a park in Chicago in the middle of summer. It has a fractured skull and many other broken bones, but the cause of death was hypothermia.
5. A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he wakes up, gets dressed, eats, goes to the elevator, takes it down to the lobby, and leaves the building for work. In the evening, he goes through the lobby to the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator (or if it was raining that day) he goes back to his floor directly. However, if there is nobody else in the elevator and it hasn't rained, he goes to the 10th floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his room.
6. A man walks into a bar and asks for a drink. The bartender pulls out a gun and points it at him. The man says, "Thank you," and walks out.
7. A man is in a returning from Switzerland by train. If he had been in a non-smoking car he would have died.
8. A man is found hanging in a locked room with no furniture and a puddle of water under his feet.
9. A man is dead in a puddle of blood and water on the floor of a locked room.
10. A man is lying, dead, face down in the desert wearing a backpack.
11. A man is lying face down, dead, in the desert, with a match near his outstretched hand. He is nude.
12. A man is driving his car. He turns on the radio, listens for five minutes, turns around, goes home, and shoots his wife.
13. A man driving his car turns on the radio. He then pulls over to the side of the road and shoots himself.
14. A man sitting on a park bench reads a newspaper article headlined "Death at Sea" and says, "A murder has been committed!"
15. A man is sitting in bed. He makes a phone call, says nothing, then goes to sleep.
16. A man takes a two week cruise to Mexico from the U.S. Shortly after he gets back, he takes a three day cruise which doesn't stop at any other ports. He stays in his cabin all the time on both cruises. As a result, he makes $250,000.
17. A policeman follows a burglar into a bar. When he enters the bar he finds a set of identical twins, dressed the same, with the loot between them. After several minutes he arrests one of the twins. 18. Adults are holding children, waiting their turn. The children are handed (one at a time, usually) to a man, who holds them while a woman shoots them. If the child is crying, the man tries to stop the crying before the child is shot.
19. A man marries twenty women in his village but isn't charged with polygamy.
20. A man pushes a car up to a hotel and realizes he's bankrupt.
21. There are a pipe, a carrot and a pile of pebbles together in the middle of a field.
22. A man called to a waiter in a restaurant, "There's a fly in my tea!" "I will bring you a fresh cup of tea," said the waiter. After a few moments, the man called out, "This is the same cup of tea!" How did he know?
23. A black man dressed all in black, wearing a black mask, stands at a crossroads in a totally black-painted town. All of the streetlights in town are broken. There is no moon. A black-painted car without headlights drives straight toward him, but turns in time and doesn't hit him.
24. A horse jumps over a tower and lands on a man, who disappears.
25. A boy and his father are injured in a car accident. Both are taken to a hospital. The father dies at arrival, but the boy lives and is taken to surgery. A grey-haired, bespectacled surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I cannot operate on this boy -- he's my son." A few other puzzles
A man has a fox, a hen and some seed. He must taken them across a river in a boat, but the boat can only hold the man and one other item. Can the man take the fox, hen and seed across, never leaving the fox with the hen or the hen with the seed?
There are four men who want to cross a bridge at night, by the light of a flashlight that one of them has. They all begin on the same side and the bridge can only hold two of them at once. They all walk different speeds and take different amounts of time to cross the bridge, namely: 1,2,5 and 10 minutes. Whenever two of them are on the bridge together they must walk at the pace of the slower person. Any party who crosses the bridge must carry the flashlight, and the flashlight must be walked back to the other side to bring over any remaining people. The flashlight cannot be thrown etc. For example if the 1 minute man and the 10 minute man walk across, 10 minutes have elapsed when the get to the far side. If the 1 minute man then crosses back with the flashlight, a total of 11 minutes have elapsed, and there are still three people on the wrong side of the bridge. What is the fastest time for them all to cross the bridge
Three light switches control three upstairs lights. When you click the switches you cannot see which switch controls which light. You know all the lights are off when the switches are up. You are allowed just one visit upstairs, then you have to say which switch matches which light. How can you do it?
Everyone likes a boiled egg but cooking them for just the right time is difficult. In this case, the egg needs to be boiled for nine minutes. The problem is you only have a four-minute and a seven- minute egg timer at your disposal. How can you ensure that you boil the egg for exactly nine minutes using only these two timers?
A Drivers noticed that his odometer reads 15,951. After two hours travelling it again shows a palindromic number. How fast was he travelling?
Three Fathers and Three Daughters need to cross a river in a boat that will hold only two people. No girl is willing to left with any of the other girls father unless her own father is present. How many trips across the river are required to get them all across.
A crossword clue ‘e (13 letters)