(e.g., What number is midway between 23 and 33? Answer: 28.)

Freshman Level

1. What is 2 percent of 400?

2. Divide 6 by 1/2.

3. Provide an anagram for any two months of the year.

Graduate Level

4. What four-letter word can mean both "speedy" and "fixed firmly in place"?

5. Two men played six games of tennis. Each man won four games. How?

6. Put the same word after "wild" and before "line" to form two new words.

Ph.D. Level

7. Name two visible body parts spelled with three letters with the last letter of "e."

8. What invention enabled the ancient Egyptians to see through stone walls?

9. What is the largest number less than 100 that is spelled using only one of the vowels?


1. Eight.

2. 12.

3. Yam, charm, pilar.

4. Fast.

5. They were partners in a doubles match.

6. Life (wildlife, lifeline).

7. Eye, toe.

8. Windows.

9. Seventeen.

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