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Today, May 5th, is World Maths Day, one of the largest annual educational events in the world. In honour of World Maths Day here are ten Maths riddles that are sure to challenge your mathematical acumen.
(1) What number goes up but never goes down.
(2) How did the soccer fan know before the game that the score would be 0-0?
(3) If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is this?
(4) I am a three-digit number. My second digit is 4 times bigger than the third digit. My first digit is 3 less than my second digit. What number am I?
(5) I add five to nine and get two. The answer is correct, but how?
(6) How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?
(7) Using only addition, how can you add eight 8’s to get the number 1,000?
(8) Where can you add 2 to 11 and get 1?
(9) Once I’m 24. Twice I’m 20. Three times I’m inappropriate. What am I?
(10) What can you put between a 7 and an 8 so that the result is greater than a seven, but less than an eight?
(1) Your age. (2) The score is always 0-0 before the game. (3) Zero. (4) 141. (5) When it is 9 p.m., add 5 hours to it and you will get 2 p.m. (6) Remove the 2 letters F and E from the word FIVE and you have IV. (7) 888 +88 +8 +8 +8 =1,000. (8) On a clock. (9) The letter “X”. (10) A decimal because 7.8 is greater than 7, but less than 8.
What started out as an amusing pun on fan sites (May the fourth/force be with you) has become an annual international holiday. Today, May the 4th, is Star Wars day and here are some of the ways you and your family can celebrate It.
Watch a Star Wars Movie.
There are nine Star Wars movies and all nine are available to stream on Disney+. The acclaimed Star Wars movie franchise holds a special place for Ireland, with Star Wars Episode VII “The Force Awakens” (2015), Star Wars Episode VIII “The Last Jedi” (2017) and Star Wars Episode IX “The Rise of Skywalker” (2019), featuring key scenes filmed on location in Munster. If you aren’t sure which film to choose, why not pick one of the movies shot on Irish shores?
Access the Online Star Wars Activity Pack.
Starwars.com is the official home of Star Wars Day and by clicking HERE you can access this year’s free activity pack. The pack is full of coloring pages and puzzles to keep both young and old entertained.
Enjoy a Stars Wars Craft.
There are lots of creative and easy Stars Wars crafts to choose from this Star Wars Day. You could make a Drengir Plant Pot (click HERE), a Boba Fett Tissue Box (click HERE) or a Darth Maul Bookmark (click HERE).
Make a Star Wars Themed Snack.
Why not combine cooking and creativity to make a fun Stars Wars themed snack? There are lots of fun recipes to choose from including Yoda Pancakes (click HERE), Dianoga Spagetti Meatballs (click HERE) and Princess Leia Apple Snacks (click HERE).
Sadly, today May 2nd 2021, the death has been announced of Actor Mr Tom (Thomas) Hickey, South Circular Road, Dublin and late of Co. Kildare.
Mr Hickey appeared on stage and screen in a career that began in the early 1960s. Alas, in more recent years he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
Mr Hickey was one of the founding members of Dublin’s Focus Theatre and went on to work with many of Ireland’s leading playwrights and directors. However, he will possibly be best remembered for his television role as ‘Benjy Riordan’ in the rural Ireland Telefís Éireann series, ‘The Riordans’.
In the early to mid 1970s, I had the great honour of working with Mr Hickey on several occasions, as a member of Irish Actors Equity, and while working as a ‘film extra’ during the making of several outside broadcast episodes of the same Irish television drama, while on location in Dunboyne, Co. Meath.
Mr Hickey, passed away peacefully while in the care of staff at Orwell Private Nursing Home, Rathgar, Co. Dublin, surrounded by his loving family.
His passing is most deeply regretted by his son Lee, brothers Kieran, Tim and John B, sisters Philomena and Annemarie, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, extended relatives, former colleagues in the theatre community and a wide circle of friends.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
In ár gcroíthe go deo.
Thurles born Pat Shortt has hysterically joked that his latest on screen character will catapult him to become “the new JLo of Tipperary”. In his most recent role, audiences will get to see a whole new side to Pat. Indeed, they’ll get to see all of him, because Pat goes naked to play the part of Padraig in a brand new hilarious comedy series entitled “Frank of Ireland”.
Premiering, as it did on April 15th last, the series follows the trials and tribulations of an anti-social fantasist and self-proclaimed musician called Frank Marron, who still lives at home with his mother.
Set in a leafy Dublin suburb, the series boasts an all-star cast and crew. The show stars and is written and directed by Brian and Domhnall Gleeson, with Sharon Horgan as one of its executive producers. Other cast members include Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Love/Hate) and Brian and Domhall Gleeson’s father, Brendan.
Pat Shortt’s character on the show, Padraig, is the father of Frank Marron’s (Brian Gleeson) ex girlfriend Áine, played by Sarah Greene. Like any project involving Pat, his character Padraig and the Frank of Ireland show will have you in stitches.
To catch a glimpse of Pat Shortt in his birthday suit, tune into this hilarious new comedy show, which airs on Channel 4 on Thursday nights, at 10:00pm or stream all the episodes on the free to view All 4 app and streaming service, (Click HERE).
If you still can’t get enough of the Thurles born comedian Pat, he is involved in a number of other projects at present including two upcoming films and the number 1 podcast “The Wellness Hour with Paaaah!“, a collaborative project with his daughter Faye.
If you haven’t experienced ‘The Wellness Hour with Paaaah!’, Click HERE and prepare yourself for hours of laughter. The Wellness Hour with Paaaah is seldom more than thirty minutes and as Paaaah says, “Sure haven’t you the rest of the hour to yourself”.
If you enjoy solving riddles and brainteasers, try resolving the video content hereunder.
Try to also solve the following questions, without peeking immediately at the answers, latter also supplied herewith.
1. What gets wetter the more it dries?
2. What goes up and never comes down?
3. I am full of keys but I can’t open any door. What am I?
4. When you look for something, why is it always in the last place you look?
5. You find an old coin and declare that the date inscribed on it is 150 B.C. Could this be correct and why?
6. I’m light as a feather, but even the strongest man can’t hold me for more than one minute. What am I?
7. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
8. What has three feet but cannot walk?
9. What runs and never walks; murmurs – but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
10. If you are running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Answers: 1. Towel. 2. Your age. 3. A piano. 4. When you locate it, you stop looking. 5. B.C. is counting backwards from the birth of Christ. If Christ hadn’t been born yet, there would be no such dates as B.C.. 6. His Breath. 7. The letter M. 8. A yardstick. 9. A river. 10. Second place.
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