Schpuzzle Of The Week:
An ounce-of-prevention’s-worth
Name a cure, in multiple words. The first letters of all but the last word spell a new word.
Place this new word next to the last word to name something that is often cured.
What is this cure?
What is often cured?
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“Conumberdrum” Set Slice:
Some fractions sum to a whole
This puzzle involves the sum of two fractions, an equals sign, and a single digit answer. The fractions contain a single digit above and a single digit below, and are not necessarily in simplified form. In this way there are a total of five digits to fill in.
The game is to fill these five spaces with any of the digits one through nine, not repeating any digits, so that the equation is true.
Following these rules, answer the following questions.
🥁1. What number(s) cannot appear in a denominator?
🥁2. What number(s) cannot appear as an answer?
🥁3. In how many equations are both fractions in simplified form?
🥁4. Find a group of five numbers that generate two distinct equations (the commutativity of addition notwithstanding). What are these equations? How many of these exist? Can you find a group of five numbers that generates three or more equations?
🥁5. Ignoring the commutativity of addition, how many distinct equations exist? Can you find all of them?
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Oxymoronic Slice:
Sharp as an ax... or as an ox?
Take two consecutive letters of an alphabet. Spell one of them out and name a homophone of the other.
A letter appears twice in these two words. Remove one of them.
Rearrange the combined letters of the result to form an oxymoronic phrase that consists of an adjective and noun. What is this phrase?
Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
“Put up your Duke, Pilgrim!”
Take the name of a famous actor — 4 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Spoonerize it. That is, interchange the initial consonant sounds of the first and last names. The result will be two new familiar first names — one male, one female — that start with the same letter ... but that letter is pronounced differently in the two names. Who’s the actor?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and VanMechelen Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a puzzle-maker whose name contains three uppercase letters. Delete the third uppercase letter and the letters following it.
The first uppercase letter in the name is one of three in a monogram currently in the news.
Replace this uppercase letter with one of the other two monogram letters. Interchange the initial consonant sounds of these two strings of letters that begin with the two capital letters. The result is an abbreviation for a healthful food and a word for another healthful food.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the healthful foods?
ENTREE #2:
Take the name of a famous American citizen — 4 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Spoonerize it. That is, interchange the initial consonant sounds of the first and last names. The result will sound like two terms with which anglers are familiar — a part of a fish, and what an angler does to a hook before landing a fish. Who’s the American citizen?
ENTREE #3:
(Note: Greg VanMechelen and I came up with the following riff-off independently of one other.)
Take the name of a past singer/entertainer — one syllable each in the first and last names.
Spoonerize it.
The result will be the title of a movie that starred the answer to this week’s NPR puzzle created by Greg VanMechelen (see the Riffing Off Shortz and VanMechelen introduction, above).
Who’s the singer/entertainer?
What’s the movie title?
ENTREE #4:
Take the name of a member of a famous entertainment trio — 5 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Spoonerize it.
The result will sound like a two-word transportation service found at Madeline Island, Wisconsin, and all across Europe at various islands, seas and ports.
Who’s the entertainment-trio member?
What’s the transportation service?
ENTREE #5:
Take the name of a historical person associated with what its inventors called “fire medicine” — 3 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. Spoonerize it. The result will sound like two words — 3-letter interjection of admonishment and a 5-letter verb.
A bystander might exclaim the interjection upon witnessing an impolite fan who “stares rudely or obsessively” (the 5-letter verb) at a celebrity, for example.
Who’s the historical person?
What are the interjection and verb?
ENTREE #6:
Take the name of a pretty well known fictional character — 7 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Shift the initial consonant sound of the last name to the beginning of the first name, which starts with a vowel.
The result sounds like two consecutive exclamations groaned by a weight-watcher standing in front of her mirror with a measuring tape around her waist reading 33 instead of the 32 it read a few days earlier.
The first exclamation is a 3-letter word related to adiposity. The second exclamation consists of three words: a pronoun, verb and noun of 1, 4 and 4 letters. The verb is a synonym of “swear” and the noun is the difference between 33 and 32 (“one ____”).
Who is the fictional character?
What are the two exclamations?
ENTREE #7:
Take the name of a pretty well known fictional character — 3 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Interchange the initial consonant sounds of the first and last names.
The result will be two 4-letter words:
1. the first half of the name of a Tony Award winning musical with a song titled “The Song That Goes Like This” and...
2. the second half of the name of a Tony Award winning play with a song titled “Those Fat Monkeys.”
Who is the fictional character?
What are the two Tony-winning stage productions?
ENTREE #8:
Take the name of a pretty well known fictional character — 5 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Interchange the initial consonant sounds of the first and last names.
The result will be two words:
2. Any person who may bear that title subject as a name.
Who is the fictional character?
What are the Blake title subject and the person who may have it as a name?
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Skyhook Dessert:
Proverb becomes a pro player
Rearrange the letters of a familiar six-word proverb to form a five-word phrase consisting of:
§ a city,
§ a two-word description of a high-scoring professional athlete who played there, and
§ the first name of this athlete.
What are this phrase and this proverb?
Hint #1: The two-word description is also a colloquial term for something seen in the sky.
Hint #2: The athlete, who has the last name of a U.S. president, scored more that 12,000 points during his professional career.
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ReplyDeleteJust thought I'd kick things off here with the first comment by saying I'm sorry, but I don't think I can solve the math puzzles Mr. Huffman created. I just can't do math puzzles. I prefer word puzzles. No offense to Mathew. That being said, I have solved the Oxymoronic Slice and all of the Entrees. I trust there will be hints for all others. But I wouldn't know where to begin with the math puzzles. Any hints for those might not help me, sadly. Just thought you might like to know. Had to put that out there.
As usual, in closing, I wish you all good luck and good solving, and remind you to please stay safe and wear those masks! Cranberry out!
Let me just say how grateful I am to all the creative souls who regularly contribute the fruits of their puzzling genius to this blog:
DeleteMathew Huffman, ViolinTeddy, cranberry, geofan, Chuck, Jeff, Bobby, Paul, skydiveboy, ecoarchitect...
LegoWhoNotesThatAnotherCrypticCrosswordPuzzleByPatrickJBerryIsInTheOffing
What might you call a kitchen vessel used in the preparation of a certain comfort food?
ReplyDeleteYou might make Mac & Cheese in a Mac Pan. Spoonerize to get PacMan. PacMan consumes mass quantities of "dots", and thus might be called a DOT HOG. Spoonerize again to get something which may or may not be "cured", and HOT = Hair Of The.
DeleteToo much of a stretch?
Take two words that sound like two consecutive letters of the alphabet. Put them side by side in the same order as the alphabetical order of the letters, with no space between. Remove one letter to get something we all want (well, most of us, anyway).
ReplyDeleteP & Q => PEA CUE => PEACE
DeleteAfter the hint, the answer to the original puzzle seems to be H & I => AITCH EYE => ICY HEAT
So far, have solved all the Entrées, the Dessert, and the Oxymoronic Slice (2 answers, but not certain if either is the intended answer). Part way through the fractions Slice - it is easy.
ReplyDeleteLiked the Dessert best so far.
Question: in the fractions Slice, are improper fractions allowed (e.g., a > b; i.e., a/b > 1)? The text says nothing either way on this point. Thanks.
I thought "not necessarily in simplified form" was an invitation to improper fractions. I could have been mistaken.
DeletePaul: As examples, the fractions 4/6 and 2/4 are not in simplified form. However, they are not improper fractions, as the numerator in each case is smaller than the denominator.
DeleteThe simplified forms of 4/6 and 2/4 are 2/3 and 1/2, respectively.
Conversely, 3/2 is in simplified form but is improper.
I had the same question, geo, but suspect that the improper ones must be allowed, or else there wouldn't be all the much to work with.
Delete"that", not "the"
DeleteOf course. Simple is as simple does.
DeleteThe question I have now is whether we are 'allowed' to put '1' in the denominator, turning the fraction into merely its numerator.
DeleteThese are all improper questions.
DeleteViolinTeddy, I had exactly the same thought. IMO, nothing in the text prohibits a 1 in the denominator, even though all such fractions (using integers) are improper.
DeleteI don't see any "problem" with that, VT.
Delete(excepting 0/1, which is excluded by the text)
DeleteAnd x/0, which is excluded by ... reality? (and the text)
DeleteAgree.
DeleteWhere's the hints, Lego?
ReplyDeleteTuesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
The cure is four words long.
If you visit Jesus in his hometown the answer might miraculously come to you.
“Conumberdrum” Set Slice:
The answer to #1 can be divined by using logic and "common (denominator, which would be 35) sense."
For #2, there is only one number that cannot appear as an answer?
Oxymoronic Slice:
The alphabet is not the Greek alphabet.
Replace the second letter of the spelled-out letter with a "p" and transpose the first and second letters of the result to form a word. If you then place this new word after the homophone, the final result is a compound word for something the Hathaway man or a pirate may sport.
Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
ENTREE #1:
The healthful foods begin with a V and a B.
ENTREE #2:
The famous American citizen is married to a Melinda.
ENTREE #3:
The hoops player is included in the image because of his nickname. He may have celebrated NBA championships with fizzy champagne!
ENTREE #4:
The famous entertainment trio was a slapstick comedy troupe. (Iggy was not a member.)
ENTREE #5:
The historical person associated with what its inventors called “fire medicine” was quite a guy.
"Fire medicine" is known by a compound word starting with a "g".
ENTREE #6:
Lewis; Simon and Taylorfunkel
ENTREE #7:
"Hammett and a hard-boiled egg of a detective"
ENTREE #8:
"A traveling salesman walks into a Chinese restaurant and orders a big bowl of lo mein..."
Skyhook Dessert
Bill, Charlie, Brian, Keith or Mick...
LegoLoMeinekeMufflers
I wrote a very crude program for my Atari 130XE computer that spat out 68 strings of five digits each which seem to satisfy the equation (I haven't really checked them all, but I've checked a few and I'm satisfied). At least I think there were 68; I was copying them down as they scrolled by on a 5" black-and-white TV screen. I don't see any 6's in the "e" column, and no 5's, 7's, or 9's in either the "b" or "d" columns. Going thru and picking out the "proper fraction" answers, I got 24361, 28341, 34281, 36241, 36481, and 48361. Well, of course e=1 if we limit ourselves to proper fractions; duh! And the proper fraction restriction leaves only 4, 6, and 8 as possible denominators. 24361 pairs with 36241; 28341 pairs with 34281, and 36481 pairs with 48361 by commutativity.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't answer all the questions; perhaps it answers none of them; so it would seem an investigation of all 68 (or whatever) possibilities is in order, and I'm unlikely to do that before election day. I can't even confirm that I didn't miscopy a few numbers.
Paul: 4/3 + 6/9 = 2 has d = 9
DeleteAlso 4/6 + 3/9 = 1
DeleteHmm, my list leaps from 42935 to 48361, which means my machine messed up (unlikely), or my programming was faulty (possible, but I'll doubt it until other discrepancies show up), OR I neglected to copy down 43692 as it scrolled by (most likely). The program's gone now because I turned the machine off. Maybe I'll rewrite it and fancy it up a bit; maybe (probably) not; depends on how long the pandemic lasts.
DeleteAnother one ... darn it!
DeleteSchpuzzle: ???
ReplyDeleteAppetizer:
1. The numbers 5 and 7 cannot appear in the denominator of either fraction.
2. If improper fractions are allowed, any number e = 1-9 can be the right member of the equation. If improper fractions are not allowed, the maximum value of the right member e is 1, and the digits 5 and 7 cannot appear in any valid answer.
Proper fractions:
2/4 + 3/6 = 1
4/6 + 2/3 = 1
3/4 + 2/8 = 1
4/8 + 3/6 = 1
Improper fractions:
9/2 + 6/4 = 6
9/2 + 3/6 = 5
7/2 + 3/6 = 4
5/2 + 4/8 = 3
9/6 + 4/8 = 2.
If 1 is also allowed as denominator:
7/1 + 4/2 = 9
5/1 + 6/2 = 8
5/1 + 4/2 = 7
5/1 + 8/4 = 7
4/1 + 6/2 = 7
4/1 + 9/3 = 7
4/1 + 6/3 = 6
3/1 + 8/2 = 7
3/1 + 4/2 = 5
2/1 + 6/3 = 4
So all numbers can be represented as the right member of the equation.
3. There is no answer in which both fractions are in simplified form. This results from the requirement of non‑repetition of digits across the whole equation.
4. Using 1,2,3,4,6 set of three equations:
2/4 + 3/6 = 1
4/6 + 2/3 = 1
2/1 + 6/3 = 4
5. At least 19, see above. Too confusing to smoke them all out!
Oxymoronic Slice: OMICRON PIE – I => NICE PROMO or EPIC MORON (They are oxymoronic)
Post-Tues-hint: AITCH EYE – E => AITCHEY => ICY HEAT
Entrées
#1: GREG VANMECHELEN => GREG VAN, (R)B(G) => BREGVAN =< VEG, BRAN
#2: BILL GATES => GILL, BATES/BAITS
#3: HONDO => DON HO
#4: LARRY FINE (3 Stooges) => FARRY LINE => FERRY LINE
#5: GUY FAWKES => FUY (FIE) GAWKES (GAWKS)
#6: ATTICUS FINCH => FAT, I CUSS INCH
#7: SPAM(alot) + (Marat/)SADE => SAM SPADE
#8: WILLY LOMAN => LILLY, WOMAN
Dessert: LOS ANGELES, SHOOTING STAR, NORM(Nixon) => A ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS.
In the above, 4/6 + 2/3 = 1 is incorrect. Cross it off.
Delete9/2 + 6/4 = 6
Deleteand
4/1 + 6/3 = 6
both use "6" twice.
True, thanks Paul.
Delete“Conumberdrum” Set Slice:
ReplyDelete1. b or d cannot be 5 or 7
2. e cannot be 6 (geofan's solutions with e = 6 have a repeated 6)
3. zero (none)
4. There are 3 sets with two equations:
a. 2/1 + 6/3 = 4; 2/4 + 3/6 = 1
b. 4/3 + 6/9 = 2; 3/6 + 9/2 = 5
c. 5/4 + 6/8 = 2; 6/2 + 8/4 = 5
There are no sets with 3 or more equations. (in geofan's solution, 4/6 + 2/3 = 4/3, not 1.)
5. If two equations are considered the same if the only difference between them is due to commutativity of addition, then there are 36 solutions. Yes, I can list them!
Not asked is what number(s) cannot be numerators of the fractions on the left side of the equation. The answer is that a or c cannot be 1.
Oops! For 4, there are 2 solutions, 4a and 4c above. 4b is wrong!
DeleteI feel that Paul's approach using a computer program is probably the easiest and fault-free approach to get all valid solutions.
DeleteAlso agree that e cannot be 6.
Here's the complete list of 36. The *** indicate that the same digits are used as in the one above or below. Ones that would match except for commutativity of addition have been filtered out. So we have 3 1 4 2 5 but not 4 2 3 1 5, as 3/1 + 4/2 = 4/2 + 3/1 = 5.
DeleteA B C D E
3 1 4 2 5
2 1 6 3 4 ***
2 4 3 6 1 ***
2 8 3 4 1
2 1 9 3 5
3 1 8 2 7
4 2 5 1 7
4 1 6 2 7
4 2 6 1 8
4 2 7 1 9
5 1 6 2 8
5 1 8 2 9
3 1 8 4 5
3 6 4 8 1
3 9 4 6 1
4 1 9 3 7
5 1 6 3 7
5 1 9 3 8
6 3 7 1 9
5 1 8 4 7
7 1 8 4 9
4 8 5 2 3
4 2 9 3 5
3 6 7 2 4
4 3 6 9 2
3 6 9 2 5
8 2 9 3 7
6 4 7 2 5
5 4 6 8 2 ***
6 2 8 4 5 ***
5 2 9 6 4
4 8 9 2 5
4 8 9 6 2
7 2 9 6 5
8 4 9 3 5
6 8 9 4 3
SCHPUZZLE: B. A. C. ON? Have no clue what Bethlehem is supposed to have to do with it.
ReplyDeleteFRACTION SLICE:
1. 5 and 7.... prime and too big; [Pre-hint]
2. If '1' is allowed in the denominator, then only '6' isn't a possible answer. by deduction of equations below. 3. NONE, all have non-simplified fractions.
2/4 + 3/6 = 1;
3/4 + 2/8 = 1;
3/6 + 4/8 = 1;
3/9 + 4/6 = 1;
6/8 + 5/4 = 2;
4/8 + 5/2 = 3
6/3 + 2/1 = 4
9/3 + 4/2 = 5;
8/2 + 9/3 = 7;
8/4 + 5/1 = 7;
9/3 + 5/1 = 8;
7/1 + 6/3 = 9;
OXY SLICE: H & I => AITCHEY(E) => AITCHEY => ICY HEAT pre-hint; The Hint: EYE PATCH
ENTREES [ALL PRE-HINTs, except #3. which I'd misunderstood to mean a two-word movie title]:
1. GREG VANMECHELEN => GREG VAN => (via the notorious RBG); BREG VAN => VEG BRAN
2. BILL GATES => GILL & BAITS
3. DON HO => HONDO [John Wayne]
4. LARRY FINE (3 STOOGES) => FERRY LINE
5. GUY FAWKES => FIE & GAWKS
6. ATTICUS FINCH => FAT, I CUSS INCH
7. SAM SPADE => SPAM & SADE
8. WILLY LOMAN => LILLY WOMAN
DESSERT: PRE-hint: A ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS => LOS ANGELES SHOOTING STAR NORM
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ReplyDeleteOxymoronic Slice
AITCH, AYE, ICY HEAT
Entrees
1. GREG VANMECHELEN, RBG, VEG, BRAN
2. BILL GATES, GILL, BAITS
3. DON HO, HONDO(John Wayne movie)
4. LARRY FINE(Three Stooges), FERRY LINE
5. GUY FAWKES, FIE, GAWKS
6. ATTICUS FINCH(To Kill A Mockingbird), FAT, I CUSS INCH
7. SAM SPADE, SPAM(alot), (Marat/)SADE
8. WILLY LOMAN, LILLY, WOMAN
Dessert
A ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS; LOS ANGELES SHOOTING STAR NORM(Nixon)
Stay tuned for my next cryptic crossword. Same Crantime, same Cranchannel!-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
An ounce of prevention...
Name a cure, in multiple words.
The first letters of all but the last word spell a new word.
Place this word next to the last word to name something that is often cured.
What is this cure?
Answer:
"Hair of the dog"; Hot dog
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“Conumberdrum” Set Slice:
Some fractions sum to a whole
This puzzle involves the sum of two fractions, an equals sign, and a single digit answer. The fractions contain a single digit above and a single digit below, and are not necessarily in simplified form. In this way there are a total of five digits to fill in.
The game is to fill these five spaces with any of the digits one through nine, not repeating any digits, so that the equation is true.
Following these rules, answer the following questions.
1. What number(s) cannot appear in a denominator?
2. What number(s) cannot appear as an answer?
3. In how many equations are both fractions in simplified form?
4. Find a group of five numbers that generate two distinct equations (the commutativity of addition notwithstanding). What are these equations? How many of these exist? Can you find a group of five numbers that generates three or more equations?
5. Ignoring the commutativity of addition, how many distinct equations exist? Can you find all of them?
Answers:
1. Five or seven.
2. Six.
3. None.
4. Only two answers exist: 12346 and 24568. The equations are 2/1 + 6/3 = 4 & 2/4 + 3/6 = 1; and 6/2 + 8/4 = 5 & 5/4 + 6/8 = 2. No group generates greater than two equations.
5. Thirty-seven. All answers below.
Format: "a/b + c/d = e" becomes "bdace". (For organizational reasons I sorted by denominators in the generation of the complete set of answers.) These are the numbers to the right of the colon. To the left, the digits are sorted from smallest to largest to create equivalence classes and answer question 4.
12345: 12345
12346: 13264, 46231
12348: 48321
12359: 13295
12369: 36192
12378: 12387
12457: 12547
12467: 12467
12468: 12648
12479: 12749
12568: 12568
12589: 12589
13458: 14385
13468: 68341
13469: 69431
13479: 13497
13567: 13567
13589: 13598
13679: 13769
14578: 14587
14789: 14789
23458: 28543
23459: 23495
23467: 26734
23469: 39462
23569: 26935
23789: 23897
24567: 24765
24568: 24685, 48562
24569: 26594
24589: 28945
24689: 68942
25679: 26795
34589: 34985
34689: 48963
Lego...
Line 5, 12369: 36192, is a mistake. 1/3 + 9/6 = 2/6 + 9/6 = 11/6 = 1 + 5/6, which is not equal to 2.
DeleteSo, 36 solutions, not 37.
With regard to the cure and the hint about Jesus's hometown, all I can say is, "Son of a bitch!"
DeletepjbNoticeHowIDidn'tBringUpTheCowbellOnTheRecording?
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
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Oxymoronic Slice:
Sharp as an ax... or an ox?
Take two consecutive letters of an alphabet. Spell one of them out and name a homophone of the other.
A letter appears twice in these two words. Remove one of them.
Rearrange the combined letters of the result to form an oxymoronic phrase that consists of an adjective and noun. What is this phrase?
Answer:
Icy heat; H + I --> aitch + eye --> aitch + eye - e --> icy heat
Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
“Put up your Duke, Pilgrim!”
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and VanMechelenHorn Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a puzzle-maker whose name contains three uppercase letters. Delete the third uppercase letter and the letters following it.
The first uppercase letter in the name is one of three in a monogram currently in the news. Replace it with one of the other two monogram letters. Interchange the initial consonant sounds of the two words that begin with the capital letters. The result is an abbreviation for a healthful food and a word for another healthful food.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the healthful foods?
Answer:
Greg VanMechelen; Veg., Bran
Greg VanMechelen-->Greg Van-->Breg Van (RBG= Ruth Bader Ginsberg)-->Veg (Vegetable), Bran
ENTREE #2:
Take the name of a famous American citizen — 4 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Spoonerize it. That is, interchange the initial consonant sounds of the first and last names. The result will sound like two terms with which anglers are familiar — a part of a fish, and what an angler does to a hook before landing a fish. Who’s the American citizen?
Answer:
Bill Gates; (Gill, Baits)
ENTREE #3:
Take the name of a past singer/entertainer — one syllable each in the first and last names. Spoonerize it. The result will be the title of a movie that starred the answer to this week’s NPR puzzle created by Greg VanMechelen (see the Riffing Off Shortz and VanMechelen introduction, above).
Who’s the singer/entertainer?
What’s the movie title?
Answer:
Don Ho; "Hondo"
ENTREE #4:
Take the name of a member of a famous entertainment trio — 5 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Spoonerize it. The result will sound like a two-word transportation service found at Madeline Island, Wisconsin, and all across Europe at various islands, seas and ports.
Who’s the entertainment-trio member?
What’s the transportation service?
Answer:
Larry Fine; Ferry line
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDelete(Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices, continued)
ENTREE #5:
Take the name of a historical person associated with what its inventors called “fire medicine” — 3 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. Spoonerize it. The result will sound like two words — 3-letter interjection of admonishment and a 5-letter verb. A bystander might exclaim the interjection upon witnessing an impolite fan who stares rudely or obsessively (the 5-letter verb) at a celebrity, for example.
Who’s the historical person?
What are the interjection and verb?
Answer:
Guy Fawkes;
Fie!; Gawks
ENTREE #6:
Take the name of a pretty well known fictional character — 7 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Shift the initial consonant sound of the last name to the beginning of the first name, which starts with a vowel. The result sounds like two consecutive exclamations groaned by a weight-watcher standing in front of her mirror with a measuring tape around her waist reading 33 instead of the 32 a few days earlier.
The first exclamation is a 3-letter word related to adiposity. The second exclamation consists of three words: a pronoun, verb and noun of 1, 4 and 4 letters. The verb is a synonym of “swear” and the noun is the difference between 33 and 32.
Who is the fictional character?
What are the two exclamations?
Answer:
Atticus Finch; "Fat! I cuss inch!"
ENTREE #7:
Take the name of a pretty well known fictional character — 3 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Interchange the initial consonant sounds of the first and last names.
The result will be two 4-letter words:
1. the first half of the name of a Tony Award winning musical with a song titled “The Song That Goes Like This” and
2. the second half of the name of a Tony Award winning play with a song titled “Those Fat Monkeys.”
Who is the fictional character?
What are the two Tony-winning stage productions?
Answer:
Sam Spade; "Spamalot"; "Marat/Sade"
ENTREE #8:
Take the name of a pretty well known fictional character — 5 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Interchange the initial consonant sounds of the first and last names. The result will be two words:
1. The title subject of one of William Blake’s “Songs of Experience” and...
2. Any person who may bear that title subject as a name.
Who is the fictional character?
What are the Blake title subject and the person who may have it as a name?
Answer:
Willy Loman; "(The) Lilly"; "Woman"
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Rearrange the letters of a six-word familiar proverb to form a five-word phrase consisting of:
* a city,
* a two-word description of a high-scoring professional athlete who played there, and
* the first name of this athlete.
What is this phrase?
Hint #1: The description is also a colloquial term for something seen in the sky.)
Hint #2: The athlete, who has the last name of a U.S. president, scored more that 12,000 points during his professional career.
Answer:
"A rolling stone gathers no moss," which anagrams to "Los Angeles shooting star Norm (Nixon)"
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ReplyDelete1. GREG VANMECHELEN, VEG, BRAN
2. BILL GATES, GILL, BAITS
3. DON HO, HONDO(John Wayne movie)
4. LARRY FINE(Three Stooges), FERRY LI
5.Wei Boyang, Be, Voyeur
6. ATTICUS FINCH(To Kill A Mockingbird), FAT, I CUSS INCH
7. SAM SPADE, SPAM(alot), (Marat/)SADE
I had wrong player and team but was working on an alternate i will send you.
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