Folks, I have a quiz up at Sporcle.com for you to try (link below):

Canadian Miscellany

You have 8 minutes to get as many answers as possible. Good luck!

Nicolas Cage would have no trouble with these puzzles:

The first one is from the Mensa “Genius Quiz-A-Day Book”

Each of the following four words has had the same vowel removed. At least three of that vowel are missing from each word. What are the reconstructed words?

PRMAT … RHARS … TNAGR … FORSR

The next one below has a single word as an answer. No other clues!

Good luck!

The following three puzzles are from the daily puzzle calendar “USE IT OR LOSE IT.”

Question 1
Doubling the perimeter of a triangle, keeping the shape the same, multiplies the area by how much?

Question 2
A woman has a job that requires her to work eight straight days and rest on the ninth day. If she started work on a Monday, the twelfth time she rests will be on what day of the week?

Question 3
The following words were in a sentence in the following sequence:
XYere; ZYere, Xere.
What letters do X, Y, and Z represent?

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A handful of rebuses for your Monday morning.

The celebration of Eid ul-Fitr will cause a slight delay in my Monday puzzle post. Expect an update later this afternoon/evening!

UPDATE

Okay, here it is. This weekend featured a lot of westerns, a lot of football, and a lot of holiday merriment. So this week’s puzzle requires you to decrypt the 3 westerns, 3 football teams, and 3 holidays pictured below. Good luck.