Brainteaser: Big If's

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1. If 3 is the tenth root of 59,049, circle the second word beginning with "e" in the list below.
2. If some dogs are white, and if all stars always twinkle, circle the twenty-seventh word in the list below.
3. If some music is unpleasant and never popular, circle the fifteenth word from the beginning of the list below.
4. If there are more than 1800 yards in one mile, circle the fourth word beginning with "a" in the list below.
5. If objects made of aluminum cannot generally be recycled, circle both words beginning with "b" in the list below.
6. If the sentence in brackets is an example of alliteration ["Plump, pretty pigs play the piano perfectly"], circle the only word containing both "m" and "r" in the list below.
7. If all highways have at least three lanes, circle the only word containing both "f" and "v" in the list below.
8. If when you mix red and blue you get green, circle the only word in the list below that is the past tense of a verb.
9. If water is a universal solvent, circle the third article in the list below.
10. If it is possible to trisect an angle using only a straight-edge and a compass, circle the first transitive verb in the list below.
11. If the existence of God can be proved using the scientific method, circle the only word beginning with "n" in the list below.
12. If this exercise is a kind of linguistic gymnastics, circle the last word in column 4 below.
13. If it rains every day in a rain forest, circle the most negative word in the list below.
14. If television news reports are truly impartial and objective, circle the second word containing "x" in the list below.
15. If travel has the potential to make one less provincial, circle the only word beginning with "I" in the list below.
16. If the winner of the Kentucky Derby always has four legs and the winner of the Indianapolis 500 always has four wheels, circle the second word from the end of the list of words below.
17. If "rose" is a color, a flower, a woman’s name, and a fruit, circle the word in the list below that means "desires."
18. If a gigabyte is ten times as large as a megabyte, circle the last word containing four vowels in the list below.
19. If soccer is more popular than baseball in America, write the word in the list below that is a synonym for "treachery."
20. If Darwin, Shakespeare, Newton, and the Beatles all spoke English as their native language, circle the fifth word after "found" in the list below.
21. If it takes the same amount of time to boil one liter of water in New York City as it does in Lhasa, circle the word in the list below that is the noun formed from "perceive."
22. If the Sphinx is in Egypt, and if Macchu Picchu is in Brazil, circle the word in the list below that means "perfect society."
23. If Abraham Lincoln’s picture is on a five-dollar bill, circle the ninth word on the list below.
24. If some Eskimos live in Antarctica, circle the first preposition in the list below.
25. If matter exists in only three states (solid, liquid, gas), circle the word in the list below that means "not all."

You should now have seven circled words. Arrange those words to form a funny but true quotation:

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