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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
A lesson in “synpaticology”
Only two (but arguably three) of the following eight pairs of couples are “synpatico.”
Which pairs are they?
1. Former actress Markle, Actress Plummer
2. Director Sturges, SNL alumnus Carvey
3. Congressman Gingrich, Governor Schwarzenegger
4. Justice Bader Ginsburg, Star-crossed lover Capulet
5. Walter White’s spouse, Stanley Kowalski’s spouse
6. Artist Warhol, Composer Stravinsky
7. Playwright Hellman, Singer Kilcher
8. Grimm’s golden-haired princess, Publisher Cerf
Appetizer Menu
State Capitals & State Capitols Appetizer:
Capitalectomy, etc.
Capitalectomy
1. Think of a state capital with an even number of letters. Double each of the last two letters of its first half. Remove the name of another state capital that results. What is the country that remains?
State government’s best friend
2. Think of a state capital. Rearrange its letters to form another state capital and a descriptor for a small dog (or, alternately, what this dog is). What are the state capitals and the two descriptors?
Backwards
3. What unusual property is shared by Monroe County, FL, and the country of Equatorial Guinea? Do any other political subdivisions (countries, provinces,...) share this property?
Little did he know
4. Eight years before he became world-famous in another context, this individual was involved in the purchase of the easternmost portion of the Russian Empire, now a part of the USA. Who is this person, what was the purchase, and how did he later become famous?
Luxury Liner Slice:
“I got them Caribbean cruisin’ blues”
Name a compound noun that might ruin a Caribbean cruise. Replace its second part with a synonym of the second part.
Remove the middle three letters of this result. Add five letters to the end of these three letters to form an adjective associated with both of the nouns that flanked the middle three letters before you removed those three letters.
What is this cruise-ruining compound noun?
What is the synonym of the second part of the compound word?
What is the adjective associated with the two nouns?
Riffing Off Shortz And Grant Slices:
fAmEIOUs actors and writers
Will Shortz’s June 9th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Judy Grant of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, reads:
Think of a famous actor, first and last names, that together contain each of the five vowels (A, E, I, O, and U) exactly once. Add an M and rearrange the result to get a famous writer, also first and last names. Who are these famous people?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Grant Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a somewhat famous singer whose first and last names contain each of the five vowels (A, E, I, O, and U) exactly once. Change the E to an A and rearrange the result to get a pair of synonyms. Who are this singer and the two synonyms?
Hint: This somewhat famous singer has a relative who is more than somewhat famous.
ENTREE #2:
Think of the last word in the title of a wartime Broadway musical and the first name of its songwriter. Rearrange the letters of the songwriter’s first name to spell the first word of a key biblical figure; rearrange the Broadway musical’s last word to spell the second word of this biblical figure.
Who is the biblical figure?
What is this Broadway musical and who is its songwriter?
Hint: The songwriter’s surname is the site of a battle in the war which is the focus of the musical.
ENTREE #3:
Think of a famous award-winning writer whose last name is a synonym of “howl.” Add a letter to the end of the last name to spell something that can fan the flames. This flame-fanner is an anagram of a famous biographer’s last name.
Who are these two writers?
ENTREE #4:
An author wrote a novel that includes two characters who are also writers. One of these characters, as the plot of the novel unfolds, turns out to be “clearly guilty” of immoral conduct and is, eventually, murdered. The full name of the other, more minor, character is an anagram of the full name of novel’s author. This full name contains three of the five vowels (A, E, I, O, and U) each exactly twice. Who is this author?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a writer who deserves to be more famous, first and last names. These two names contain five of the six vowels (A, E, I, O, U and Y) at least once. Ergo, there is one vowel it does not contain. And thus, a hyphenated homophone of the first word in the title of one of the writer’s novels describes the writer’s first and last names. (This hyphenated homophone is a word not found in dictionaries, but its meaning is so easily understood that a definition is not necessary.) Who is this writer?
Hint: The writer, who was not born in the U.S., died in the U.S. on a day that was a significant day in U.S. history.
ENTREE #6:
Think of a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Remove one letter.
The remaining letters can be rearranged to form two first names. One is the first name of a character on an NBC sitcom adapted from a BBC series. The other is the first name of a character on a USA network comedy-drama. One actress portrayed both of these characters.
Who is this puzzle-maker? Who is the actress?
Well-Grounded Dessert:
Artichoke heart transplant?
Name an eight-letter food ground from something planted and harvested.
Remove one letter from this food to form an adjective describing a transplant, but not a transplant from the ground.
What is this food?
What is this adjective?
Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
A lesson in “synpaticology”
Only two (but arguably three) of the following eight pairs of couples are “synpatico.”
Which pairs are they?1. Former actress Markle, Actress Plummer
2. Director Sturges, SNL alumnus Carvey
3. Congressman Gingrich, Governor Schwarzenegger
4. Justice Bader Ginsburg, Star-crossed lover Capulet
5. Walter White’s spouse, Stanley Kowalski’s spouse6. Artist Warhol, Composer Stravinsky
7. Playwright Hellman, Singer Kilcher
8. Grimm’s golden-haired princess, Publisher Cerf
Appetizer Menu
State Capitals & State Capitols Appetizer:
Capitalectomy, etc.
Capitalectomy
1. Think of a state capital with an even number of letters. Double each of the last two letters of its first half. Remove the name of another state capital that results. What is the country that remains?
State government’s best friend
2. Think of a state capital. Rearrange its letters to form another state capital and a descriptor for a small dog (or, alternately, what this dog is). What are the state capitals and the two descriptors?
Backwards
3. What unusual property is shared by Monroe County, FL, and the country of Equatorial Guinea? Do any other political subdivisions (countries, provinces,...) share this property?Little did he know
4. Eight years before he became world-famous in another context, this individual was involved in the purchase of the easternmost portion of the Russian Empire, now a part of the USA. Who is this person, what was the purchase, and how did he later become famous?
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Luxury Liner Slice:
“I got them Caribbean cruisin’ blues”
Name a compound noun that might ruin a Caribbean cruise. Replace its second part with a synonym of the second part.
Remove the middle three letters of this result. Add five letters to the end of these three letters to form an adjective associated with both of the nouns that flanked the middle three letters before you removed those three letters.What is this cruise-ruining compound noun?
What is the synonym of the second part of the compound word?
What is the adjective associated with the two nouns?
Riffing Off Shortz And Grant Slices:
fAmEIOUs actors and writers
Will Shortz’s June 9th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Judy Grant of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, reads:
Think of a famous actor, first and last names, that together contain each of the five vowels (A, E, I, O, and U) exactly once. Add an M and rearrange the result to get a famous writer, also first and last names. Who are these famous people?Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Grant Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a somewhat famous singer whose first and last names contain each of the five vowels (A, E, I, O, and U) exactly once. Change the E to an A and rearrange the result to get a pair of synonyms. Who are this singer and the two synonyms?
Hint: This somewhat famous singer has a relative who is more than somewhat famous.
ENTREE #2:Think of the last word in the title of a wartime Broadway musical and the first name of its songwriter. Rearrange the letters of the songwriter’s first name to spell the first word of a key biblical figure; rearrange the Broadway musical’s last word to spell the second word of this biblical figure.
Who is the biblical figure?
What is this Broadway musical and who is its songwriter?
Hint: The songwriter’s surname is the site of a battle in the war which is the focus of the musical.
ENTREE #3:
Think of a famous award-winning writer whose last name is a synonym of “howl.” Add a letter to the end of the last name to spell something that can fan the flames. This flame-fanner is an anagram of a famous biographer’s last name.
Who are these two writers? ENTREE #4:
An author wrote a novel that includes two characters who are also writers. One of these characters, as the plot of the novel unfolds, turns out to be “clearly guilty” of immoral conduct and is, eventually, murdered. The full name of the other, more minor, character is an anagram of the full name of novel’s author. This full name contains three of the five vowels (A, E, I, O, and U) each exactly twice. Who is this author?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a writer who deserves to be more famous, first and last names. These two names contain five of the six vowels (A, E, I, O, U and Y) at least once. Ergo, there is one vowel it does not contain. And thus, a hyphenated homophone of the first word in the title of one of the writer’s novels describes the writer’s first and last names. (This hyphenated homophone is a word not found in dictionaries, but its meaning is so easily understood that a definition is not necessary.) Who is this writer?
Hint: The writer, who was not born in the U.S., died in the U.S. on a day that was a significant day in U.S. history.
ENTREE #6:Think of a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Remove one letter.
The remaining letters can be rearranged to form two first names. One is the first name of a character on an NBC sitcom adapted from a BBC series. The other is the first name of a character on a USA network comedy-drama. One actress portrayed both of these characters.
Who is this puzzle-maker? Who is the actress?
Dessert Menu
Well-Grounded Dessert:
Artichoke heart transplant?
Name an eight-letter food ground from something planted and harvested.
Remove one letter from this food to form an adjective describing a transplant, but not a transplant from the ground. What is this food?
What is this adjective?
Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
Lego- for Entree #6 I think there's a letter deletion necessary.
ReplyDeleteBeyond that I've got the dessert; I'm biding my time on everything else.
You are correct, Megatart Stratagem. I shall correct my error.Thank you.
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have the LLS; Entrées #1(?), #2, #3, and #5; and the Dessert.
ReplyDeleteThink I have the actress and 2 characters for Entrée #6, but not the puzzle-maker yet. No clue on #4, but it is an interesting clue.
Have most of the SOTW first names but no link as yet.
geofan
got Entrée #6. Duh. geofan
ReplyDeleteHappy Flag Day everyone(and Happy Father's Day coming up)!
ReplyDeleteOn the homefront, Bryan and Renae and the kids went to Chattanooga for a few days, so Mom and I had Arby's for supper. We also watched Caddyshack on AMC(but Mom fell asleep by the end), and then I did my usual podcast and puzzles before checking in here. Late last night I checked these puzzles and could only solve Entrees #2, #3, and #6(with the error). I also have all the names in the Schpuzzle, but can find no connection between any of them. Hints please, Lego!
has a theory for the SOTW that yields 2 or 3 conforming couples. If correct, there is a common thread with all the Entrées.
ReplyDeleteI can't resist commenting, having just gotten lucky guessing the Dessert, that I SHOULD have known this, as the adjective applies to ME!!
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, I've solved only Ken's 1st puzzle, and like pjb, gotten all the names for the Schpuzzle, but came up with what doesn't seem like a very reasonable answer... the results don't seem to fit the question. So it's probably all wrong.
Haven't seriously even had the time to look at the Entrees yet....but like geo, I DID solve the Liner Slice.
VT - Interesting. I am also the recipient of the adjective, and on the day the P! puzzles posted, ate a product made from the food. So of course the answer was immediately obvious.
DeleteAlso - VT, it is possible that you (and sdb, if he follows P!) may have a one-leg-up on App #4.
Wow, that is really interesting, Ken/geo....who would think that TWO of us on this blog would have suffered from the same genetic condition?!! (I assume you didm anyway -- we can name it on Wednesday).....I'm going to check on your #4, to see WHY sdb and I 'may have a leg up'....
DeleteOh, I'd worked and worked on your #4, when I went back to look, choosing the obvious person, and then trying not so obvious persons, but got nowhere.
DeleteIn my case, it was not genetic, but indirectly needed as a result of treatment for inflammatory bowel disease [and this will mislead as well...].
DeleteVT et al., the obvious person is not the one. Eight years after the obvious purchase, said person was dead. In general, being dead does not make one world-famous.
DeleteKeep looking -- if you get it, you will be surprised!
Yes, I had discovered the said obvious person was indeed deceased eight years after. But I HAVE hunted and hunted, with no success.
DeleteI can't imagine how your condition mentioned above caused the need for our mutual operation....
I found someone who was gaining fame at about the right time and who had previously been a civil servant, but it appears his service had ended prior to the real estate deal in question and he probably wasn't even in the right branch of government. There might be reason to think that those sharing VT and SDB's interests would know more about him than the average person, but I still don't think he's the answer.
DeletePaul and VT, you are both barking up a wrong tree, which might be a coast redwood.
DeleteMore hints: This person, at the time of the purchase, was not a US citizen. But over his life, he claimed at least 3 different citizenships. None of them was Russian, nor was any of them the land of his birth.
SDB (and possibly VT - I am not sure) - In 2 hours (or maybe 3 on a Friday afternoon, say) you, too, could feel just like Sarah Palin. But through a windshield, not from your front porch.
Perhaps 3 hours for me (your guess is pretty much correct, Ken/geo, I assume based on 'time' comments I must have made?)....with the new info, I shall try yet again....pretty funny, though, about the wrong tree/coast redwood!
DeleteMonday hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
First, find the first names.
Second, write them down side-by-side.
Third, look at them.
Last, lose their last names.
Capitalectomy, etc.:
1. top rent rap + eli's Simega rots
2. The first, longer state capital is in a state with a city that has the same name as the second, shorter state capital. The city with the same name as the second state's capital is home of a rather unique museum.
3. "Wag the dog"
4. Not Bruce the rubber-toer...
LLS:
The compound noun that might mar a Caribbean cruise contains 3 syllables.
The nouns that flanked the middle three letters before you removed those three letters are the same noun.
ROSAGS:
ENTREE #1:
"Alice in Luncheonland"
ENTREE #2:
The movie version of the musical features Mr. Jones, played by a guy who four decades later supported the Jones Act.
ENTREE #3:
Remove me from the first name of the subject of the biography to get the first name of the famous award-winning writer.
ENTREE #4:
Replace an "er" with an "ol" in a main character in the author's novel to get the title character of the a novel written by the famous award-winning writer in ENTREE #3.
ENTREE #5:
In the Hint, the "significant day in U.S. History" was alas also a sad day.
ENTREE #6:
Lou Garland... Lou, as in Mary's boss, and Garland, as in the subject of a Minnesota museum.
WGD:
The eight-letter food might be an ingredient in a muffin or pancake recipe... or in a recipe for a food that is also the really nifty nickname of a Celtic named Ce_ _ ic.
LegoButterbeanSpudChocolateThunderIronheadTooTallNightTrainBigTrainBigUnitRefrigeratorPeeWeeWhiteShoesGoldenBearTheGlidePistolPeteCoolPapaBrownBomberJuiceSplendidSplinterTheStiltGallopingGhostDoctorJShoelessCrazylegsSayHeyKidGeorgiaPeachBroadwayJoeSultanOfSwat...
All that gives me are the first state capital puzzle and the Dessert.
ReplyDeleteFor the Appetizers, I myself did not "get" Lego's hints for #1 and #4. So here are mine, plus additional for #2 and #3.
ReplyDelete#1: You can almost "see" the country and excised capital just looking at the starting capital.
#2: The "city" with the product and museum is really a town. I had never heard of it until I lived in the state to its south (where I could receive its TV channel 6 with tropospheric bending), but I had heard of the product. I only first heard of the museum today from Lego.
#3: I like Lego's hint. Look at an atlas or Internet map to see how.
#4: See exchange starting here. The wrong tree up which you are barking could more likely be a Sitka spruce.
Uh, geo, to WHAT product and museum are you referring, because in re-reading your Appetizer #2, there is no such thing mentioned. Just a dog descriptor and another state capital.
DeleteOh, I see the museum was mentioned in Lego's hint....but no mention of a product.
DeleteThe hints gave me Entree #2, at least; I swear, I'd never even READ Entree #3 itself until now (because it looked completely unfamiliar), but I managed to solve it without the help of the hint, which hint had merely ADDED to the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteI don't have time right now to try to read/use the rest of the hints, but Entree #1's left me stumped.
Lego, for Entrée #4, I believe that a (shhh silent D must be added as well, to get the title character of #3. Of course, the required ol (oil?) from #4 could come from its title character, leaving a soundalike for a metric unit of volume.
ReplyDeleteYou are 100% correct, geofan. Thank you. And I like your "title character" observation/suggestion also.
DeleteMy Hint #4 should have read;
ENTREE #4:
Replace an "er" with an "old" in a main character in the author's novel to get the title character of the a novel written by the famous award-winning writer in ENTREE #3.
Legolita
Thanks, Lego and geofan. The discussion of the typo gave me, however indirectly, the answer to Entree #4.
DeleteHallelujah, Entree #1 FINALLY hit me!
ReplyDeleteAnd by working backwards, thankfully to the various hints, I just came up with the Entree #4 writer, whom I'd never heard of and would have NO interest in his novel. Yuck. So of the entrees, only #5 to go. But I've gotten nowhere looking for writers who died on the specified (undoubtedly) date.
ReplyDeleteStill no luck at all on the Appetizers 2, 3 and 4, and I've run out of steam!
VT, et al.:
DeleteFor App #2, my error - please forgive. The canned product is what the museum that Lego mentioned is dedicated to.
For App #3, imagine if the 48 contiguous states of the USA disappeared (e.g. in a nuclear war or supervolcano eruption), leaving only AK and HI. Now envision Honolulu as the capital of the rump-USA. That is the situation of App #3 (but with no catastrophe).
For App #4 Start at SFO. It is a big airport. Drive north. After a while, you will have to cross a BIG orange bridge. Cross this bridge. Then continue north, taking care not to drive INTO the ocean on the curves. After about 2-3 hours, following the coast, you will find a state park.
Go to the Internet, find the Web site for that state park to find the answer to this puzzle.
Sorry, geofan, but I'm no expert on geography like you. I may need it "dumbed down" a little to solve this stuff.
DeleteCan you read a road (or Google) map? If yes, you should be able to get App #4. For #2, I went to grad school in Ames. Look for a small city/town in the state to its north that has the name of a different state capital.
DeleteI finally worked out your App #2, geo....going backwards since what the museum WAS suddenly hit me....
DeleteBut I tore apart (practically) an online map of CA coast state parks, checking for distances, and of all the ones I could identify, nothing popped out as being the same name as a non-American who had anything to do with the purchase. What this answer is going to turn out to be, well, it stands as a mystery to me!
VT, with all due respect, you are making several assumptions that it turns out are not correct. But you are on the track!
Delete1. The name of the state park is not the name of the person who was involved in its purchase. Rather, the name of the state park is a poetic version of the country that built the fort.
2. There is another state park that does contain the name of the purchaser. It is not on the coast. Rather, it is located just to the east (walking distance) of the state capitol. In fact, the founder of this second fort used the material and supplies from his purchase of the first fort to construct the second fort. That is (in part) why he purchased it! He bought it for himself! Not for the USA.
In fact, some people (mostly Russian nationalists) still maintain that the Russian owners never received their money for the sale and that Russia for this reason still has a present-day claim on the territory of the first fort.
3. When you get to the online site of either of these state parks, you then will have to click on the "brochure" and read the park brochure carefully to find the name of the purchaser and the connection. Wikipedia for either will give this information also, slightly more readily (fewer clicks and less reading).
4. When he purchased the first fort and built the second fort, he was not an American citizen. Rather, his citizenship was then of the country that then controlled most of the future state. He assumed this second citizenship to make if possible to purchase a large land holding and then build the second fort on this land. He later became a naturalized American citizen after the USA gained control of the future state. His first (European) claimed nationality was a of third country, via that of his parents. It has a Guard in the Vatican. But he himself was born in what was at that time a grand dukedom that is part of a present-day country that borders his first claimed country of citizenship.
In his machinations and schemes and mishandling of money, the individual in question bears some similarities to a present orange blob who is much in the news today.
The reason that the person became famous was only indirectly connected with either of these forts, Rather, what happened in a mill located at yet a third state historic site is what made him famous. In fact, he lost the second fort owing to yet-bigger scuzzballs who overran the second fort when they then arrived, in the year that gave the name to a SF football team.
Life is sometimes simple and sometimes complex. But always interesting.
Bruce, the rubber-toer of my hint, was a Cub and a Card.
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ReplyDeleteOkay, with the above info, I finally happened to click on a state park, that lo and behold, revealed the hinted-at nationality of the man in question (I'm going to go read more bout him, but I was so excited to finally SEE a name after all these hints....although some were misleading...didn't the hint about going 3 hrs north along the coast say that a state park up there would reveal the person? I could swear it did, but I'm too tired right now to try to pin things down. Still don't know HOW this person was instrumental in the big purchse, but I'm going to write his name down, and call it done!
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ReplyDeleteThe man in question was not involved in the "big purchase" of 1867. The man in question (you have his name) only purchased the fort north of S.F. This fort (not Alaska itself) was the easternmost part of the Russian Empire (though the Russian-American Company owned both Alaska and the fort).
The state park on the coast gets you the name of the fort. You then have to read the park brochure to see the name of purchaser.
ReplyDeleteThink of a state capital. Change the first letter to the preceding letter of the alphabet. Rearrange to get two words used to describe dogs.
ReplyDeleteMontgomery => mongrel toy
DeleteRight.
DeleteNice solving, geofan. I was hoping to make Olympia work but it would have had to change your rules to do so:
DeleteThink of a state capital. Change the second and last letters to a single P. Rearrange to get two words used to describe dogs.
But try this better riff-off of Paul's puzzle:
Think of a state capital. Change the first letter to an F. Rearrange to get things Eleanor needed to walk her dog.
LegoGivesPaul'sPuzzleABig"Yippie!"
On the first puzzle, do you mean 2nd last and last or second and last? And to a single P?
DeletePuzzle #2: TALLAHASSEE => A FLEAS LEASH
Deletegeofan,
DeleteOn my first puzzle, I mean "second and last," not "2nd last and last"
I like your answer for my second riff-off of Paul's riff-off, but my intended answer is "Fala leashes."
LegoFalaDelanoRoosevelt
OLYMPIA => OPYMPI => YIP MOP
DeleteMEGHAN Markle & AMANDA Plummer
ReplyDeleteJOHN or PRESTON Sturges & DANA Carvey
NEWT Gingrich & ARNOLD Schwarzenegger
RUTH Bader Ginsburg & JULIET Capulet
SKYLER White & STELLA Kowalski
ANDY Warhol & IGOR Stravinsky
LILLIAN Hellman & JEWEL Kilcher
RAPUNZEL & BENNETT Cerf ????????????????
INDIANAPOLIS > INDIA(ANNAPOLIS)
TOY?
Capital not on mainland?
Seward? Bell? Custer? Tchaikovsky? SUTTER
SHIPWRECK?
??????????
VIRGIN MARY, THIS IS THE ARMY, IRVING BERLIN
(Saul) BELLOW > BELLOWS > (James) BOSWELL
???????????????
ALDOUS HUXLEY, "I-LESS" IN GAZA
JUDY GRANT > JAN, TRUDY
CORNMEAL > CORNEAL
SOTW
ReplyDeleteMEGHAN Markle & AMANDA Plummer AE - AEU
JOHN or PRESTON Sturges & DANA Carvey A(E)O - AEU
NEWT Gingrich & ARNOLD Schwarzenegger AEO - AEI
RUTH Bader Ginsburg & JULIET Capulet IU - AEIU
SKYLER White & STELLA Kowalski AEY - AEIO
ANDY Warhol & IGOR Stravinsky AIOY - AIOY
LILLIAN Hellman & JEWEL Kilcher AEI - AEI
HÄNSEL, GRETEL or LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD & BENNETT Cerf (A)E, EIO - EIO
Only for the ones in bold do the vowels of the 2 first names (taken together, neglecting repeats) agree with the two last names (taken together, neglecting repeats). This is true for 2 or 3 (depending on option selected for Grimm Bros. The "vowels" motif carries over from the Entrées.
Apps
#1 INDIANAPOLIS => INDIAANNAPOLIS => INDIA + ANNAPOLIS
#2 SAINT PAUL => AUSTIN + LAP or PAL
#3 Capital (or administrative center) and most of population are on an offshore island; most of area is on the mainland. This is also true for Denmark(Copenhagen) and (area only) Sweden(Stockholm), but in this case the islands are not really "offshore." Victoria, British Columbia also is on an island but most of the population is on the mainland (Vancouver, etc.) Some cities (e.g., New York, Paris) partially qualify.
#4 JOHN (JOHANN AUGUST) SUTTER. He bought FORT ROSS (California) from the Russians in 1841. FORT ROSS was the easternmost part of the Russian Empire. The livestock and all moveable assets he moved and used in founding SUTTER'S FORT which was indirectly the founding of Sacramento (here is a link to a state capital). On this grant of land (which he obtained from the Mexicans as a Mexican citizen), gold was discovered at present Coloma, CA (SUTTER'S MILL) which started the 1849 GOLD RUSH.
LLS
SEASICKNESS => SEA NAUSEA => NAUTICAL + SEA
Entrées
#1 ARLO GUTHRIE => AURORA LIGHT
#2 VIRGIN MARY / IRVING BERLIN / THIS IS THE ARMY / Battle of BERLIN
#3 (Saul) BELLOW / BOSWELL
#4 VLADIMIR NABOKOV (Lolita) QUILTY and VIVIAN DARKBLOOM; HUMBERT => HUMBOLDT in #3 novel (Humboldt's Gift) of Saul Bellow
#5 ALDOUS HUXLEY / EYELESS / I-LESS (got it from the first hint). Huxley died on 22 Nov 1963, day of JFK assassination (also death of C.S. Lewis).
#6 JUDY GRANT / JAN + TRUDY / MELORA HARDIN (I had never heard of any of these, excepting Judy Grant, whose name I read in NPR puzzle and at first did not strike me as a "puzzle-maker."
Dessert CORNMEAL => CORNEAL
Further to FORT ROSS: The Mexican Californian government never recognized the Russian title to FORT ROSS, even though they traded with the Russians during the Russian period.
DeleteIn 1845, Mexico granted (in their view) control of the Fort Ross lands to two trustees, who then leased it to the same guy whom SUTTER had appointed as manager of the now-denuded FORT ROSS lands in 1843. Details here.
In summary, the history of FORT ROSS (and much of California) in the period 1841-1848 is very murky, as it was complicated by the Mexican War and the California Republic period.
When the USA obtained control of California de facto in 1846 and de jure in 1848 (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo), they recognized the Mexican grant. The Russians, having left in 1841, had no voice in the matter.
This is a good example of a "cloud on the title" -- why one should buy title insurance on real property when purchasing.
SCHPUZZLE:
ReplyDelete1. MEGHAN & AMANDA
2. JOHN & DANA
3. NEWT & ARNOLD = LAWN RODENT [May I say, a very nice description for either of these guys, IMHO.]
4. RUTH & JULIET
5. SKYLER & STELLA = TALKERS YELLS, or TALKY SELLERS
6. ANDY WARHOL & IGOR STRAVINSKY = OAR DINGY or GAD IRONY
7. LILLIAN & JEWEL
8. RAPUNZEL [She doesn't HAVE a last name, right?] & BENNETT
STATE CAPITA/OL S APPETIZER:
1. INDIANAPOLIS => INDIA & ANNAPOLIS
2. AUSTIN, MN has the SPAM museum. So the second capital is AUSTIN, TX. The first one is: SAINT PAUL => AUSTIN and LAP or PAL.
3. ??
4. ALASKA, obviously: JOHN SUTTER, born in Switzerland! Hurrah!
LUXURY LINER SLICE: SEASICKNESS => SEA/NAUSEA => REMOVE 'NAU' => NAUTICAL
ENTREES:
1. ARLO GUTHRIE => LIGHT and AURORA
2. THIS IS THE ARMY => IRVING BERLIN => VIRGIN; ARMY => MARY; VIRGIN MARY
3. SAUL BELLOW => BELLOWS => BOSWELL [JAMES & JAS WATERS]
4. VLADIMIR NABOKOV [Lolita] Character #1: HUMBERT [Humboldt, by Bellow]; Character #2: VIVIAN DARKBLOOM
5. 9/11/01 But no website told me WHAT writer died on that date, whether in the tragedy or just coincidentally.
6. JUDY GRANT [I thought it would be Ken Pratt] => TRUDY [on MONK] and JAN [on THE OFFICE]
DESSERT: CORNMEAL => CORNEAL
Schpuzzle
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PRESTON, DANA
NEWT, ARNOLD
RUTH, JULIET
SKYLER, STELLA
ANDY, IGOR
LILLIAN, JEWEL
RAPUNZEL, BENNETT
Appetizers
1. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIA, ANNAPOLIS
2. SAINT PAUL, AUSTIN, LAP or PAL
Menu
SEASICKNESS or SEA NAUSEA, NAUTICAL
Entrees
1. ARLO GUTHRIE, AURORA, LIGHT
2. THIS IS THE ARMY, IRVING BERLIN, VIRGIN MARY
3. SAUL BELLOW, BELLOWS, (James)BOSWELL
4. VLADIMIR NABOKOV, HUMBERT, HUMBOLDT, VIVIAN DARKBLOOM
6. JUDY GRANT, MELORA HARDIN, who played JAN on The Office and TRUDY on Monk
Dessert
CORNMEAL, CORNEAL
Sorry I couldn't get everything. I also had to get ready for a birthday party this evening. They decided to combine Mia Kate's birthday and my other niece Morgan's birthday. It was fun.-pjb
This week's answers for the record, part 1:
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A lesson in simpaticology
Only two (and arguably three) of these eight pairs of couples are “synpatico.” Which pairs are they?
1. Former actress Markle, Actress Plummer
2. Director Sturges, SNL alumnus Carvey
3. Congressman Gingrich, Governor Schwarzenegger
4. Justice Bader Ginsburg, Star-crossed lover Capulet
5. Walter White’s spouse, Stanley Kowalski’s spouse
6. Artist Warhol, Composer Stravinsky
7. Playwright Hellman; Singer Kilcher
8. Grimm’s golden-haired princess with no surname, Publisher Cerf
Answer:
Dana Carvey and Preston Sturges are compatible. Their first names placed side-by-side, spell "nap rest," which are synonyms.
Bennett Cerf and Rapunzel are compatible. Their first names placed side-by-side, spell "net trap," which are synonyms.
Igor Stravinsky and Andy Warhol might be compatible, but one might also argue that they are not compatible. Their first names placed side-by-side, spell "or and," which might be synonyms, or synonyms, or neither synonyms nor antonyms.
The other couples' first names placed side-by-side, spell antonyms, not synonyms:
1. aMANDA MEghan (man, dame)
3. arnOLD NEWt (old, new)
4. juLIET RUTH (lie, truth)
5. sTELLA SKyler (tell, ask)
7. jeWEL LILLian (Kilcher, Hellman) (well, ill)
Appetizer Menu
State Capitals & State Capitols Appetizer:
Capitalectomy, etc.
Capitalectomy
1. Think of a state capital with an even number of letters. Double each of the last two letters of its first half. Remove the name of another state capital that results. What is the country that remains?
Answer:
INDIANAPOLIS => INDIAANNAPOLIS - ANNAPOLIS => INDIA
State government’s best friend
2. Think of a state capital. Rearrange its letters to form another state capital and a descriptor for a small dog (or, alternately, what this dog is). What are the state capitals and the two descriptors?
Answer:
SAINT PAUL => AUSTIN + LAP or PAL
Backwards
3. What unusual property is shared by Monroe County, FL, and the country of Equatorial Guinea? Do any other political subdivisions (countries, provinces,...) share this property?
Answer:
The administrative center and most of the population are located on an offshore island, while most of the area is located on the mainland of a continent. Other examples: Denmark, Newfoundland and Labrador (Canadian province).
Little did he know
4. Eight years before he became world-famous in another context, this individual was involved in the purchase of the easternmost portion of the Russian Empire, now a part of the USA. Who is this person, what was the purchase, and how did he later become famous?
Answer:
Johann (John) Sutter, purchased Fort Ross, CA from the Russians in 1841. In 1849 he became world-famous for the discovery of gold on his land near Sacramento. Parts of the fort structure and other supplies at Sutter’s Fort were obtained from Fort Ross.
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This week's answers for the record, part 2:
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Luxury Liner Slice
“I got them cruisin’ the Caibbean blues”
Name a compound noun that might mar a Caribbean cruise. Replace its second part with one of the second part’s synonyms. Remove the middle three letters of this result. Add five letters to the end of these three letters to form an adjective associated with both of the nouns that flanked the middle three letters before you removed those three letters.
What is this cruise-marring compound noun?
What is the synonym of the second part of the compond word?
What is the adjective associated with the two nouns?
Answer:
Seasickness; Nausea; Nautical
(Seasickness >> sea + nausea >> sea + nau + sea >> sea + nautical + sea)
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This week's answers for the record, part 3:
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fAmEIOUs actors and writers
Will Shortz’s June 9th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Judy Grant of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, reads:
Think of a famous actor, first and last names, that together contain each of the five vowels (A, E, I, O, and U) exactly once. Add an M and rearrange the result to get a famous writer, also first and last names. Who are these famous people?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Grant Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a somewhat famous singer, first and last names, that together contain each of the five vowels (A, E, I, O, and U) exactly once. Change one vowel to a different one and rearrange the result to get a pair of synonyms. Who are this singer and two synonyms?
Hint: This somewhat famous singer has a relative who is more than somewhat famous.
Answer:
Arlo Guthrie; aurora, light
Hint: Arlo Guthrie’s father, Woody is a folk music pioneer and legend.
ENTREE #2:
Think of the last word in the title of a wartime Broadway musical and the first name of its songwriter. Rearrange the letters of the songwriter’s first name to spell the first word of a key biblical figure; rearrange the Broadway musical’s last word to spell the second word of this biblical figure.
Who is the biblical figure?
What is this Broadway musical and who is its songwriter?
Hint: The songwriter’s surname was the site of a battle in the war which is the focus of the musical.
Answer:
Virgin Mary; "(You're in the) Army," Irving (Berlin)
ENTREE #3:
Think of a famous award-winning writer whose last name is a synonym of “howl.” Add a letter to the end of the last name to spell something that can fan the flames. This flame-fanner is an anagram of a famous biographer’s last name. Who are these two writers?
Answer:
Saul Bellow; Thomas Boswell
ENTREE #4:
An author wrote a novel which includes two characters who are also writers. One of these characters, as the plot of the novel unfolds, turns out to be “clearly guilty” of immoral conduct and is, eventually, murdered. The full name of the other, more minor, character is an anagram of the full name of novel’s author. This full name contains three of the five vowels (A, E, I, O, and U) each exactly twice. Who is this author?
Answer:
Vladimir Nabokov, author of "Lolita," in which characters Vivian Darkbloom and Clare Quilty are writers.
ENTREE #5:
Think of a writer who deserves to be more famous, first and last names. These two names contain five of the six vowels (A, E, I, O, U and Y) at least once. Ergo, there is one vowel it does not contain. And thus, a hyphenated homophone of the first word in the title of one of the writer’s novels describes the writer’s first and last names. (This hyphenated homophone is a word not found in dictionaries, but its meaning is so easily understood that a definition is not necessary.) Who is this writer?
Hint: The writer, who was not born in the U.S., died in the U.S. on a day that was a significant day in U.S. History.
Answer:
Aldous Huxley, author of "Eyeless in Gaza" (his name is "I-less")
Hint: Huxley died on the day JFK was assassinated.
ENTREE #6:
Think of a puzzle-maker, first and last names, the combined letters of which can be rearranged to form two first names. One is the first name of a character on an NBC sitcom adapted from a BBC series. The other is the first name of a character on a USA network comedy-drama. One actress portrayed both of these characters.
Who is this puzzle-maker? Who is the actress?
Answer:
Judy Grant; Melora Hardin
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This week's answers for the record, part 4:
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Well-Grounded Dessert:
Artichoke heart transplant?
Name an eight-letter food ground from something planted and harvested.
Remove one letter from this food to form an adjective describing a transplant, but not a transplant from the ground.
What are these two words?
Answer:
Cornmeal (flour made from ground corn, which is planted); Corneal (which describes a transplant of the cornea)
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