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Legendary Legends: PUZZLING
3rd Legendary Legends test. Word and number myths!
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You all know what its called. You dread it every time you log on to your computer. It clogs up your personal space. What is it? You guessed it: spam. All that junk e-mail you receive usually contains weird and useless stuff that usually winds up in your trash bin. Maybe it's not all that bad, however. Some interesting puzzles sometimes come via e-mail...some that can be solved and others than can't.

To sort out the truth from all the spam, answer these true-or-false questions. What you know and don't know may shock you. Brace yourselves, its time to get PUZZLING!
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1. The Magic Word:
 Is there at least one 9-letter English word that still spells another English word each time a letter is removed?
      Yes        
      No        
 
2. Wrinkled Translation:
 Was John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath" translated into Japanese as "Angry Raisins"?
      Yes        
      No        
 
3. Linear Days:
 Is February 20, 2002, the last symmetrical year/date/time combination to ever occur?
      Yes        
      No        
 
4. Cabbage Pact:
 Does a government memo regulating the sale of cabbages have almost 27,000 words?
      Yes        
      No        
 
5. Big Fish:
 Did the term "red herring" originate from the practice of using red herrings to throw police dogs off scent?
      Yes        
      No        
 
6. D for...:
 Was there an entry for the nonexistent word "dord" in the Webster's New International Dictionary?
      Yes        
      No        
 
7. Cry for -gry:
 Do three common words in the English language end in -gry?
      Yes        
      No        
 
8. Show Me Short!:
 Did Dr. Seuss write "Green Eggs and Ham" in response to a challenge from one of his editors to write a story with 50 different words or less?
      Yes        
      No        
 
9. Don't Miss...:
 Did the phrase "jump the shark" come from an episode of the TV show "Happy Days"?
      Yes        
      No        
 
10. Cough...Cough...:
 Were 1,200 prisoners of the French during Napoleon's reign accidentally killed because his guards misinterpreted a complaint about his cough?
      Yes        
      No        
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