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We combine Math and Analogies today in a nerdish attempt to hybridize our way out of the box.

twelve : gross    ::    thirteen : ______?

Someone clever told us that BSATWorld could score tons more hits if we featured problems including terms that people Google a lot. Just for laughs, see if you can figure out which words those are in today's Math QoD.

Stanley buys only Blu-Ray Porn.  For Christmas, for his closest friends, he bought either "Danielle Does Denver: Remastered and Rehung" for $29.99 each, or "The Bad News Bears Come from Behind" for $34.99 each.  If he spent a total of $530.79 including $5.95 for shipping for 16 Blu-Ray Porn flicks, how many of "Danielle Does Denver" did Stanley buy?

While the College Board may think it's cool to use Jean Piaget and Dian Fossey as subjects for...YAWN...sorry...where was I? Oh, yes, here at the BSAT our culture heros are different...

Although the English plumber Thomas Crapper didn't invent the flush toilet, but he came up with the trombowl and its deeper cousin, the trombasin.

Going to college? Time to get familiar with the fastest growing intercollegiate sport--Quidditch. Start by picking up a copy of JK Rowling's hard-to-find Quidditch Through the Ages. Or just don your regalia and get outdoors for a little quaffle stuffing. Or answer the analogy below.

yellow wand : cape grabbing    ::    red wand : _______

Improving sentences is usually pretty easy. The shit doesn't hit the fan until you're asked to choose between subtle shades of irony. As in...

Well, lah-dee-frickin'-DAH!

Wednesday, November 11's College Board Question of the Day was...surprise!...BORING!!!:

"In a community of 416 people, each person owns a dog or a cat or both. If there are 316 dog owners and 280 cat owners, how many of the dog owners own no cat?" Today, giving credit where it's due, we "repurpose" the question as the BSAT math QoD.

In a certain ethnic restaurant serving 416 people, each dish contains dog, cat or both. If there are 316 customers who like canine and 280 "cat lovers", how many dog-o-philes eat no cat?

SAT vocabulary covers only a fraction of what you need to get along in this freaky world. Today's Sentence Completion Question of the Day illustrates the point.

Since the singer's shocking death, innumerable support groups have arisen with names like "I Miss Michael" and embracing members ranging from _______ to _______.

An economic crisis can also stimulate innovation. A free economy can lift itself out of the doldrums through the efforts of creative entrepreneurs who discover surprising opportunities. Today's Math Question of the Day...

Tuck You Inc. is a personal home tucking service. If the typical travel time between tucks is twelve minutes and each tucking takes ten, what is the top total of tucks each Tuck Truck can transact on Tuesday from ten to twelve?

Some data: An SAT question is 14% more effective than a tab of Ambien. OTOH, the average BSAT question is equivalent to one and a half ampules of KaBooM Guarana Blast. Plus, today's BSAT question has a "Raiders of the Lost Ark Coolness" factor of .996 (out of 1.0).

A decorative object from the Louvre Museum, formally thought to be Napoleon's field desk, has finally been identified as a primitive laptop, whose 10 byte hard drive contains nothing but a 40 pixel naked photo of Marie Antoinette.

Life sometimes calls upon our subtlest abilities to see patterns in order to discern the kinky from among the otherwise ordinary. Today's BSAT Sentence Completion Question of the Day...

Alexis' fondness for ________ and _______ raised more than just eyebrows at the checkout counter.

The Law of Unintended Consequences says that whatever you meant to happen, things will turn out some other way. Today's BSAT math Question of the Day.

Stanley is auctioning off his little sister's Swine Flu vaccine on eBay. The closing price is three times the minimum he set, which is twice what he paid. If his profit is $50, what is the final result?

At the BSAT one of our contributors' day job is a part time foot ware critic for a certain well-known blog. This is his latest Sentence Improvement.

In the final round of the "World's Ugliest Shoes Contest" in Las Vegas, it came down to a shootout between Crocs, Uggs or Birkenstocks.

The BSAT boldly strides where the SAT fears to tread. We're in weird grammatical territory with today's zippy Sentence Improvement Question of the Day.

His dangling modifier hanging out of his pants, this sentence needs a lot of work.

Just figuring out where you are can require all the logic skills you can muster. Today's math/logic question of the day...

In New York City, trendy New York City neighborhoods often acquire cute nicknames that squeeze together the names of nearby landmarks and streets. For example, there's SoHo (South of Houston), NoHo (North of Houston), TriBeCa (Triangle Below Canal) and DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan and Brooklyn Overpasses). Which of the following seems like the best name for an area that's down under Manhattan at Houston?

Besides the obvious problem of what can this guy be thinking, there may be something wrong with the sentence below. Pick the best alternative. Today's BSAT Sentence Improvement Question of the Day...

Sporting a mullet hairpiece and snorting crystal meth, the 1997 season flew by for Andre Agassi.

Today's Question of the Day is really tough, so it may be of interest only to nerds. Of course, it's also really disgusting, so the rest of you may want to stick around.

At the highly respected urbandictionary.com, a chode is defined as a penis that is no longer than it is wide. See the simplified dong diagram below. With which of the examples of dimensions (I, II or III) would a dong qualify as a chode?

The BSAT was designed for people exactly like Levi Johnston--royal fuck-ups with high BSIQs. And we're excited to feature this inspirational figure in today's Sentence Completion.

After his triumphant spread in Playgirl Magazine, Levi Johnston has decided that his most promising next career move will be _____.

When you get to college you'll learn how to calculate your own Blood Alcohol Content (BAC). Why not get a head start with today's math problem?

A frog puppet has a normal blood volume of 0.75 liters. If he chugs half of a 1.5 liter bottle of Jose Cuervo Explosivo (100% alcohol) and doesn't piss, what is his resulting condition based on the table below?

For today's Sentence Improvement, the "trick" is figuring out what's wrong with it. The "treat" is that you never have to meet the people pictured below.

For Halloween, Margot and her friends dressed up as the College Board, and then they won the award for Scariest Costume.