Brainteasers 51


See No. 7 below.

Some readers have been complaining that our brainteasers have been too easy lately. OK... Time to get out the Advil.

1.
What are the two missing letters?

ME  VE  ??  MA   JU  SA  UR  NE  PL

2.
We know of seven English words that contain two double e's. Can you name two such words?

3.
A little geography exercise. We've encoded some country names by giving the first letter of the country followed by the number of letters in its name. For example, E7 would be England. What are these countries?

Z6, L10, I9, B6, J7, P8, M10, P4

4.
There's one five letter word that, when you type it upper-case, reads the same right-side up and upside down. What is it?

5.
Can you re-arrange the letters below to form a single word?

DRAGON LEWIS

6.
What word is missing from this sequence:

begin inch chapel elastic ? cellar arisen end

7.
Six months after the owner of the custom license plate picture above had received it, he was informed by the the state of Washington that it was withdrawing the plate. Why?

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