Sandy Wood
Brain Game: The Yen of Ken
by Sandy Wood - September 3, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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Today’s Brain Game focuses on the preferences of a guy named Ken. Compare the four clues to see what the names have in common, and use that information to figure out the answer. Good luck!

Ken likes Dale Earnhardt, Jr., but not Jeff Gordon.
He likes Sean Connery, but not Will Smith.
He likes Rudyard Kipling, but not George Orwell.
He likes Calvin Coolidge, but not Herbert Hoover.

Given this information,
would Ken like Garth Brooks or Johnny Cash?

Here is the ANSWER.
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Comments (13)

  1. My answer was Johnny Cash since Ken prefered the older person.

    posted by Joshua on 9-3-2009 at 7:45 am

  2. I started through the list thinking that Ken really had a thing for the letter A, until I noticed my two options.

    As for the real answer, George Orwell has the potential to really throw some people off.

    posted by Steven on 9-3-2009 at 8:21 am

  3. Great answer, Joshua. Just to make sure no one else falls into that one, I’ve added a “Jr.” to Dale Earnhardt… he’s a couple years younger than Jeff Gordon.

    posted by Sandy Wood on 9-3-2009 at 8:32 am

  4. I got Garth Brooks for the same Letter A reason. He likes the letter A in the first name.

    posted by Amy on 9-3-2009 at 8:33 am

  5. I got it! Thank you wikipedia :)

    posted by Kelly on 9-3-2009 at 10:12 am

  6. Option B:

    He wouldn’t like either of them since they have short last names (6 letters or less).

    posted by Bob on 9-3-2009 at 10:13 am

  7. Both last names might be six letters or less, but in every case he does like the longer of the two names.

    SSDD

    posted by Jeff on 9-3-2009 at 11:28 am

  8. Each of the preferred last names starts with another word – (Earn)hardt, (Con)nery, (Kip)ling, (Cool)idge. So of course he’d like (Brook)s.

    posted by Michael on 9-3-2009 at 11:52 am

  9. Got the letter A in the first name thing too … but it seemed to simple.

    posted by John on 9-3-2009 at 12:18 pm

  10. Wasn’t Calvin Coolidge’s first name John, not James?

    posted by Dawn on 9-3-2009 at 2:08 pm

  11. It was, Dawn… nice catch! I originally had a few different names in the game (including Paul McCartney) and was thinking “James” for him.

    posted by Sandy Wood on 9-3-2009 at 4:13 pm

  12. Until the end… all preferences had 4 syllables.

    posted by Sue on 9-4-2009 at 2:32 am

  13. I figured that he just liked the option whoose last name started with the letter that came first with the alphabet…E, not G
    C, not S
    K, not O
    C, not H
    B, not C!

    posted by Kim Velasco on 9-4-2009 at 7:03 am

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