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Schpuzzle of the Week:
“Say why we’re famous, then name us!”
The last name of a reasonably well-known person is also the name of a creature.
(Note: For purposes of this puzzle, disregard the person’s first name.)
ends of the last name. Rearrange these letters to spell a seven-letter word for what the person is known for.
Take the letters you did not remove, in order. Change one letter to the letter preceding it in the alphabet. The result spells a word for what the creature is known to do.
Who is this person?
Appetizer Menu
Delightfully Puzzley Triple-Appetizer:
Road-tripping and landmarking
Road Trip
🚗1. In 1968 an American singer had a hit single about an essential worker in a midwest state who lived the high life.
The young man mapped out a more-or-less direct route for this “romantic roadtrip.”
Furthermore, he was also a natural history buff; and so along the way he decided to stop off, “side-trippingly,” at a landmark/tourist site... or two, or three.
through four states in his quest reach his destination and darling. Along the way he visited a famous “fossil-formation” natural history site, a “desolate” geological marvel along the Green River, and a site featuring a half-dozen historic stone ovens that resemble behives (albeit not in the Beehive State... but nearby the Beehive State).
Serendipitously, as he neared his girlfriend’s state his journey ran parallel to a famous early American travel route – a historical bonus!
Take the postal codes of the four states the young worker traversed (not counting his home state).
A. Where is this young essential worker from, city and state?
What does he do for work?
What is the name of the singer and the 1968 hit song?
What was the name of his famous group of recording session musicians that backed the singer on this record?
B. What are the city and state where the worker’s girlfriend lived.
What was the song about this city and who sang it on the hit record.
C. What are the three natural history sites the young worker visited?
E. What is the common word that you can form from seven of the eight letters in the postal codes of the four states?
A state landmark and the global state
🌎2. Name a famous U.S. state landmark in two words of five and six letters.
Drop the penultimate letter. Scramble lightly to get a two-word assessment of world’s current condition.
What are the landmark and the assessment?
An inspired but bizarre landmark
What is this auto part?
What is the “bizarre” Midwest landmark?
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“Synful” Slice:
Snatching virtue from the jaws of deceit
The first one-third of a synonym of “unholy” is also the first two-thirds of a synonym of “holy.”
What is this synonym of “unholy”?
Hint: The final one-third of the synonym of holy mentioned in the first paragraph is a two-letter male name.
Riffing Off Shortz And Mace Slices:
Let’s open to the Book of Thespialonians
Name a famous actor whose first name is a book of the Bible and whose last name is an anagram of another book of the Bible. Who is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Mace Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker whose first name is a book of the Bible. His surname is an anagram of a four-letter synonym of “a mountain peak or pinnacle,” like the peaks of the biblical mountains of Carmel, Tabor, Zion, Ararat, Sinai and Olivet – each symbolizing
“closeness” to a heavenly God.
The first five letters of the puzzle-maker’s first name and first letter of his surname can be rearranged to spell the destination of a road upon which the disciples significantly encountered Christ. The remaining letters of the puzzle-maker’s name can be rearranged to spell an initialism of a mainline Protestant organization whom one might learn more about this encounter.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the “mountain peak synonym?”
Where did the disciples significantly encounter Christ?
What is the initialism of the Protestant organization?
ENTREE #2
Name a reasonably well known poet whose first name is a book of the Bible and whose last name is an anagram of another book of the Bible.
Note: The poet is known by a first, middle and last name. The middle name is the original surname of the poet’s mother, and is also the surname of an Oscar-winning actor.
ENTREE #3
Name an online automobile marketplace that is an anagram of an apocryphal book of the Bible.
What is the biblical book?
Hint: The biblical book is also an anagram of the combined letters of two words: A cheer heard at Wrigley Field, and a likely target of the cheer.
ENTREE #4
A mathematical curve that describes a smooth periodic oscillation resembles the path of an automobile cruising up and down and up and down rolling countryside hills.
We might therefore say that this automotive path traces a two-word term of four and five letters... a term that rhymes with “wine grape.”
This “rolling hills” two-word term is an anagram of a New Testament biblical book.
What are this book and the term?
ENTREE #5
The New York Mets were born in 1962 when Major League Baseball’s National League expanded from eight to ten teams (The Houston Colt 45s were the other 1962 NL expansion team.)
In 1966, however, the Mets finished in ninth place, ahead of the Chicago Cubs. Fans were hopeful.
Alas, in 1967 the Mets slid back into the cellar...
The disheartened and exasperated Mets fans exclaimed a collective “____ _____!”
The combined letters of the words in those two blanks can be rearranged to spell a biblical book.
What is the exclamation? What is the book?
ENTREE #6
About a dozen years ago, a Nebraska businessman named Terrance Watanabe embarked on a yearlong gambling binge, placing exorbitant bets while playing blackjack and other games of chance at Caesars Palace and at The Rio in Las Vegas.
By year’s end, the businessman’s billfold was $127 million lighter.
Take a two-word term for what Mr. Watanabe suffered that year, in six and four letters. The second word in the term appears intact, with its letters in order, within a biblical book. The remaining letters of the book can be rearranged to spell the first word in the two-word term.
What is the two-word term? What is the book?
ENTREE #7
Name a movie title, in three words, that has become a holiday staple.
Rearrange the combined letters of:
A. the middle word in the title,
B. a four-letter name for the holiday, and
C. The first name of the actor who plays the title character.
If you choose correctly you can spell the name of a biblical book.
What is this book?
What are the movie title, four-letter holiday and title-character actor?
Dessert Menu
Elijah’s Chariot of Fire Dessert:
“She’s got a ticket to ride my seesaw”
Name something that takes passengers for a ride, in two words.
This ride-provider, when spoken aloud, sounds like a description of what it is made of.
What is it that takes passengers for a ride?
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SCHPUZZLE down for another week! I hit the correct person right away, but then broke the name up wrong, thus leading me astray...until I finally realized I hadn't 'seen' the correct choice of seven letters....thus, the second word that I'd been hunting for popped right out, as did the seven-letter word. Onward....
ReplyDeleteI'm so tickled...after fighting my way through the Entrees (well, I've skipped 5 and 6 thus far) and NOT being able to solve #2 at all, I actually GUESSED RIGHT on my FIRST attempt for #7. I could hardly believe it!
ReplyDeleteCongrats, ViolinTeddy. You obviously do not need a Schuzzle hint, but here is one for those who may be struggling:
Delete"A home of Renaissance and architecture and art."
Here is an early hint for Entree #2: Think of a type of captive, lonely, mourning and in exile.
LegoNotesThatEltonJohnPleadedDon'tShootMeI'mOnlyThePianoPlayerButItMayBeOkayToAxThePianoPlayer
Your hint suggests two possible names (I think I 'got' what you meant), however I can get nowhere with either of them..i.e. no three-named poet using either word as a last name, so I'm still extremely stuck and frustrated.
DeleteI did get the rest of the Entrees, but was also stymied by the Dessert, which seems just way too broad to even attempt.
VT,
DeleteThe poet in Entree #2 was esteemed also as a critic, and was editor of a quite influential literary magazine for 21 years.
He inspired me once to compose a poem – not using convential tools such as a Smith-Corona, Papermate or Parker, but rather a scissors. My poem, you see, took shape and gradually emerged as readable as I cut individual letters out of newspaper headlines and pasted them into a note.
As for the Dessert, I periodically channel the ghost of the great Lou Gehrig (whose nickname was similar to that of Walter Johnson)...
Speaking even further of baseball, Chuck Stobbs, who was big in Wheeling, West Virginia (his hometown), once gave up an estimated 565-foot home run to Mickey Mantle that flew entirely out of Washington D.C.'s Griffith Stadium!
LegoRunningOnLittlePinkFeetUponTheGrass
Well, I finally worked out Entree #2. I still haven't figured out how your scissors hint fits in there (please explain it next Wed), and in fact, in desperation, I finally took to anagramming each of the Bible books, until I got a word to try....indeed, I'd never heard of this poet/critic guy. The mom's maiden name/middle name hint was very helpful.
DeleteOn to see if I can get anywhere on the Dessert. Thanks...
Ah, that turned out to be easy enough, what with the hint. NEVER would have thought of it otherwise.
DeleteSo now, all I'm stuck on are parts of the Appetizers 1 and 2...I have AN answer for #2, but doubt it is correct, because the resuiltant phrase doesn't make much sense. I do have #1;s A, B and D, but for the life of me, I have tried various four-state combos over and over, and can't come up with a word. (And am NOT at all sure about the first two sight-seeing locations, since I can't pin all four states down, only the first and last.)
Remember that for Appetizer #1, after you find the four states you must "drop one letter, leaving seven. Scramble these seven letters to spell a common word."
DeleteThe word is associated with the banking industry.
LegoWhoConfers"ExtraCredit"UponAnyoneWhoCanExplainWhyTheMetsBannerInTheImageForEntree#5IncludesTheWord"Vigar"WhichIsLikelyIntentionallyMisspelledBecauseThatIsTheWayThePersonWhoWasSayingThatWordQuiteABitBackThenWouldAlwaysPronounceIt!
I did not forget to drop a letter, but still can't force any combo of seven letters (going back and forth on the choice of the fourth state) into any word. There is one word that is close, but no cigar.
DeleteI figured out that I must have been using the WRONG 'destination' song, thus the wrong state...once I changed that, indeed the word I thought 'was close' above turned out to be the word.
DeleteGood Saturday morning to Lego, VT, and all else in Puzzlerialand!
ReplyDeleteAlmost 1:30AM here in Jasper, AL, and I'm finally here on the blog after everything else I've done tonight: supper, puzzles, "Ask Me Another" with guest Kyra Sedgwick, and a shower! Not going anywhere later today, just getting my shower out of the way for the week. I almost forgot to check the latest edition of P! last night, but I eventually got to it, and here's what I've solved so far:
The Schpuzzle(spoiler alert: the creature's name is a little longer than you'd think)
Plantsmith's #3(easiest)
The "Synful" Slice
All Entrees except #5(toughest)
Hints will be required, of course.
In closing, I hope everyone has a great weekend, and of course, I wish y'all good luck and good solving, and please stay safe, and if you must be out for any reason, please don't forget to wear a mask! The pandemic is far from over, folks! Cranberry out!
pjbHasAnIdeaForThe1968SongPlantsmithIsHintingAt,ButTheSightseeingTripDescribedInTheQuestionClearlyHasNothingToDoWithTheLyrics!
"In the name of the Father . son and the Holy Spigot." Rowen Atkinson. Three wediings and a Funeral." My favorite cinema priest.
ReplyDeleteFor number one all sites of interest will be accepted.Except for Trump Tower 2.
Am happy to hear that, PLSH!
DeleteHello, all.
ReplyDeleteHave everything solved except Schpuzzle and Dessert. Thought I had the Schpuzzle but no such person.
For #2 poet, the image is a dead giveaway. Otherwise would never have gotten it -- totally unfamiliar.
Road Trip #1 was easy but a lot of fun. IMHO there are two equally valid answers for #1D. I have been on one of them several times, most recently in 2018.
For Road Trip #2 I have two likely alternate answers, one a bit hilarious but true. More are forthcoming.
The Bible book puzzles were easy. #7 was hardest of the bunch.
Yes alternates welcome for 1D.
ReplyDeleteI tried to make ex-olympian Buster Crabbe work for the Schpuzzle to no avail. 1928 winner of Olympic 400m race.
YOu need a LONG name for the Schpuzzle, in order to do all the stuff Lego requests.
DeleteHow about the "k.k. privilegierte Österreichisch-ungarische Staatseisenbahn-Gesellschaft"? About which I am just now writing, as it has personal significance. But a railway company,not a person.
DeleteWhat on earth ARE you doing, geo? (Is this what has kept you away from P! for the last several weeks, a big writing project...but in GERMAN?). Do tell, please....
DeleteViolinTeddy et al,
DeleteI was writing a devotional for my Czech woman friend in Ivančice, Czechia. It is "famous" for the Ivančický viadukt, a high-level railway bridge that crosses the Jihlava river there. Said bridge was constructed by the k.k. privilegierte Österreichisch-ungarische Staatseisenbahn-Gesellschaft in 1868-1870 and for a time was the highest such structure in Europe.
As a part of this activity, during the pandemic I have become proficient in the Czech keyboard. The hard part is not the letter, but in remembering where the special characters are, e.g.: "How the heck does one type '=>' on a Czech keyboard?" Likely a problem not many Puzzlerian!s have concerned themselves with. Also how to type German on a Czech keyboard.
[typed - including the html tag - on Czech keyboard layout. Dobrý večer dráhí Puzzlerian!y]
PS: článek v češtině.
minor correction: dobrý večer dráhí Puzzerian!i (not ...y)
DeleteAlso I was on a long and tortuous genealogical search for my background in Klingenmünster in the Pfalz in Germany. But that was all in German (later generations in English), not Czech.
A few selected Sunday hints:
ReplyDeleteDelightfully Puzzley Triple-Appetizer:
1. The essential worker in the midwest state lived the high life... literally, because his job required it.
The1968 hit record about the city (in which his beloved lady lived) spoke of wannabe "stars... parking cars" and "pumping gas."
2. The landmark: "_____ Force"+"pine ______"
Riffing Off Shortz And Mace Slice:
ENTREE #5
After the 1966 Mets slid back into the cellar, the exasperated Mets fans exclaimed “____ _____!”
The combined letters in those two words, in addition to being rearranged to spell a biblical book, can also be rearranged to spell the name of the devil (5 letters) and the name of a monster (4 letters)!
Elijah’s Chariot of Fire Dessert:
The something that takes passengers for a ride, in two words, does move, of course, but you don't actually travel anywhere else. You disembark in the same place you embarked! (Think Palisades Park.)
LegoWhoTookARideOnAShootTheChute["Huh?]WithHisHeartFlyin'UpLikeARocketShipDownLikeARollerCoasterBackLikeALoopTheLoopAndAroundLikeAMerryGoRound!
I have an alternate city (better, a town) where the sweetheart might live. Same state, same area, same song year. But near boats.
DeleteGot #5(definitely)and the Dessert(I think), but I still need help with the "world's current condition" and everything else in Appetizer #1 besides the two 1968 songs.
Deletepjb,Sadly,HasNeverTraveledAsMuchAsTheEssentialWorker(AndHasHadLessLuckJustTryingToFindWhereHeWentOnline!)
Just got the "world's current condition". I had the wrong landmark(I knew it!).
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DeleteOOh, per the Appetizer #2 hint, I had the correct landmark all along. Delighted to know that.
DeleteCool to see Geo's many alternates.
Delete"What the world needs now is love- sweet love. thats the only thing that there's just too little of." Dionne Warwick
ReplyDeleteCould use a slice sliver. Or a sliver of slice?
ReplyDeleteA Slivery Slice Hint:
DeleteThe synonym of “unholy” contains a dozen letters. It begins with 3-letter word for a a pouch within an animal or plant that often contains a fluid.
Some people who go by the two-letter male name are surnamed Wood and Harris. A third has a two-syllable surname that looks like it would be pronounced like the answer to, "What did Joan Benoit do that made her semi-famous?"
LegoUnholily
Mr.Mace is from Smyrna also a city mentioned in the Bible in Revelations 19:10 and was the second city to receive a letter from Paul. Once again there is also a Smyrna,Ga. not far from Atlanta.proper..
ReplyDeleteI thought i had the poet for two- but can't make the last name work though the middle name - his mother's maiden -does link to an actor of note. Please advise.
ReplyDeleteThe last name inEntree #2 is a word that preceded the word "... note" in the March 1932 headlines.
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatTheKeyFigureInThoseHeadlinesGraduatedFromHighSchoolAboutThirtyMilesNorthOfStCloudMinnesotaWhenLegoLives
Think i have it. Still working on E7. The Movie is three words?
DeleteOK, just got the Schpuzzle and (with Sun hint) the dessert.
ReplyDeleteHave 2 alternates for #1b (song). One song does not mention the town, but was inspired by it. The intended (and hinted-at) one does mention the town prominently. Both were 1968 hits.
Also two main alternates to Road Trip #1d. One I personally used in 1977, 1979, 2011, 2012, and 2018. Other (parallel) one, not.
Finally, have 2 alternates to Road trip #2. One alternate I like even better than the intended solution.
geofan liked the Road Trip puzzles, of course.
Cranberry could still use a few hints on the "road trip" part of Plantsmith's #1. BTW Tomorrow I have a funeral to attend and a dental appointment before I can reveal my answers.
Deletepjb'sHumpDayStartsWithAHUGEHumpToGetOver!
*The famous “fossil-formation” natural history site is a National Monument in the middle of the Centennial State that is billed as " one of the richest and most diverse fossil deposits in the world."
Delete* The “desolate” geological marvel along the Green River is in a remote and rugged location in the Beehive State, but you can visit it via river raft. The area was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1969
* The half-dozen historic stone ovens that resemble behives were built around 1876 to provide charcoal for two silver smelters in, fittingly, the Silver State.
LegoSideTrippingTheLightFantastic
Think I got it all, but that "road trip" puzzle's going to be a lot to write down. See y'all later today!
DeleteRIP Carolyn Appling(nee Satterwhite)Dec. 4, 1945-Feb. 21, 2021
All pre-hints except as noted. © geofan 2021
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: (Florence) NIGHTINGALE – NIGHALE => HEALING, TIN change T to S => SING
Road Trip Appetizers:
#1: see below
(a) Wichita KS, Lineman, Wichita Lineman, Glen Campbell, The Wrecking Crew
(b1) Sausalito CA, “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay”, Otis Redding [pre-hints]
(b2) San José CA, “Do You Know the Way to San José”, Dionne Warwick [post-Sun-hint]
(c) Florissant fossil beds CO, Canyonlands Natl Park UT, Ward Charcoal Ovens St Park NV
(d1) California Trail [Fort Hall, ID to Sacramento area, with several branches to other parts of CA]
(d2) Central Pacific (first transcontinental) Railway, route today used by Amtrak's California Zephyr train.
(e) CO, UT, NV, CA – V => ACCOUNT
#2: Four pre-hint alternates [a - d]; intended solution [e]
(a) TRUMP CASINO – N => CIAO TRUMPS [Like this one! Also it is “scrambled lightly”]
(b) MOUNT DENALI – L => ANNO TEDIUM [it was a rough year]
(c) RIVER HUDSON – O => SHRIVED URN [many reconciled, online, to death]
(d) MOUNT BAXTER (California) – E => TANTRUM BOX [the kids are driving me bonkers]
(e) SPACE NEEDLE – L => NEEDS PEACE or NEED ESCAPE [post-Sun-hint]
#3: CARHENGE – E + I => CAR HINGE or – H + IN => CAR ENGINE
Synful Slice: SACRILEGIOUS, SACRED, RILIGIOUS => RELIGIOUS; hint: ED
Entrées
#1: SAMUEL MACE, ACME, EMMAUS, AELC (American Evangelical Lutheran Church)
#2: JOHN CROWE RANSOM Never heard of him. Got it via the image via image search.
#3: CARHUB or “RAH CUB!” => BARUCH
#4: SINE SHAPE => EPHESIANS
#5: “LAST AGAIN!” => GALATIANS
#6: CASINO LOSS => COLOSSIANS
#7: SANTA(The Santa Clause), NOEL, TIM(Allen) => LAMENTATIONS
Dessert: FERRIS WHEEL => FERROUS WHEEL (made of iron) [post-Sun-hint]
Sausalito Sally was "the other girl friend.." "Dock of the Bay was first posthumous no. one single in USA-recorded shortly before his untimely demise. Another great hit.
DeleteGreat alternates Geofan,
ReplyDeleteI liked Mount Denali--anno tedium.
And Ciao Trumps too.
What is image search? Somekind of an ap?
YOu can screen capture a photo, then plug it into GOogle' IMage search function (just google "image search" and the box will come up.)
DeleteThanks. Wonder if i can do this on my Chromebook
DeleteSCHPUZZLE: NIGH/TING/ALE => HEALING & SING
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
1. (A) LINEMAN from WICHITA, KS; GLEN CAMPBELL, SINGER; Song: "WICHITA LINEMAN": Group: THE WRECKING CREW;
(B) SAN JOSE, CA, or possibly Los Angeles; Song: “DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE?”
I had originally thought it was: PHOENIX, AZ, due to: “BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX”, sung also by GLEN CAMPBELL and many others]. That’s why I was having so much trouble with the four states…needed either NM or WY or OK, which combined with the other three states, made no word.
(C) MORRISON FORMATION; GREEN RIVER FORMATION; FLORENCE COKE OVENS, FLORENCE, AZ;
(D) Route 66
(E). CO, UT, NV, CA => ACCOUNT
2. SPACE NEEDLE => NEED ESCAPE
3. CARHENGE => CAR HINGE
SLICE: SACRILEGIOUS; SACRED; LAST 3/4s SOUNDS LIKE ‘RELIGIOUS’
ENTREES:
1. SAMUEL MACE => ACME; EMMAUS [Never heard of this before]; AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH
2. JOHN CROWE RANSOM => ROMANS
3. CARHUB => BARUCH [Never heard of these, either!] Hint: RAH, CUB
4. SINE SHAPE => EPHESIANS
5. “LAST AGAIN” => GALATIANS
6. CASINO LOSS => COLOSSIANS
7. THE SANTA CLAUSE => SANTA/NOEL/TIM => LAMENTATIONS
DESSERT: IRON HORSE => IRON ORES
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DeleteVT - only problem with your (1d) is that Route 66 went to LA, not the S.F. Bay area required for San José (or my alternate of Sausalito CA in Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay")
DeleteVT = Love your alternate of "Iron Horse" [after appropriate reduction of the ore to Fe metal].
DeleteNeed escape is also great. Also landmarks too. It was a scenic route via LA.
DeleteYes also to Iron Horse.
That's cool two Glen Campbell songs.
DeleteWith all due respect, I like ViolinTeddy's alternate better than the "intended" ferrous wheel. Why? Because in her alternate, both words are sound-alikes (or identical) for the source material: IRON HORSE => IRON ORES. So her answer is IMHO cleverer.
DeleteVT and geofan came up with some simply marvelous alternative answers this week! Congrats!
DeleteLegoSays"CiaoTrumpsIt'sTimeToHopAnIronHorseToMar-a-Lago!"
GOsh, thanks you guys!
DeleteGeo, re my Route 66...I had had that when I mistakenly thought (see my comments in my answers) that PHOENIX was the girl friend's home city. When it became apparent that CA had to be the destination city, I recalled somewhere Lego saying something about (L.A.) is a great big freeway...blah blah blah..I thought. THus, I decided that since L.A. WAS mentioned in the SAn Jose song, it was a possible destination. And I never bothered to actuallY CHECK where Rte 66 goes!
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DeleteViolinTeddy: As Plantsmith said, "It was a scenic route via LA." A plausible alternate, just have to get from LA to San José.
Delete2/24/21 46 degrees AM
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:Florence Nightingale- Healing, Sing- I could not get Buster Crabbe to work.
Apps- * Thanks to Lego for editing. Garden of Puzzley Delights
1. A. “song Wichita Lineman” Glen Campbell and the Wrecking crew studio greats. One of his first big hit singles?
b.. “Do you know the way to San Jose” Dionne Warwick.
C. Florissant Fossil beds, CO, Desolation Canyon UT, Charcoal ovens state Park- Nevada
D. Pony Express- near Carson City. (Others noted Geofan-etc.)
e.CO,UT,NV,CA -V= Account
2. Space needle - -l -Needs peace.
3. Car Henge- Nebraska- E--I Car hinge. Visited my friend in Scotts Bluff NB shortly after this was constructed out in middle of nowhere. Original colors shown in the photo now it is all a drab battleship gray. **Thanks Lego for gracious editing.
Slice:Sacriligiious, Sacred, Religious
ENTREE #1 Samuel Mace, ACME, Emmaus,AELC- American Evangelical Lutheran Church
ENTREE #2 Ezra Weston Pound??
ENTREE #3 Car hub--Baruch
ENTREE #4 Sine shape-- Ephesians
ENTREE #5 “ Last again” Galatians
ENTREE #6 Casino loss- Collossians
ENTREE #7 Movie?? Noel-- Name??? Lamentations
Dessert Ferris Wheel.
Bonus joke “Why did the melons have to get married? Because they cantaloupe.
Plantsmith - wrt Bonus joke: In some cases, the melons are the cause of the marriage or elopement, it would seem ;-).
DeleteHmmm, geo, R-rated, n'est-ce pas?
DeleteVT: Agree. No offense intended, please forgive if out of order.
DeleteBut then we are all adults here, n'est-ce pas?
I wasn't offended, I was just kidding you back!
DeleteI have to confess i was unable to solve Blaine's state postal code challenge of a couple of weeks back. So i had to write my own as a fitting tribute. I think one of answers was Flagrant- Florid- Georgia- Tennessee and ?? Oh well.and you did not have to remove any letters as in mine.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDeleteFLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, HEALING(she was a nurse), SING
Appetizer Menu
1.
A. "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell and the Wrecking Crew session musicians
B. "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" by Dionne Warwick
C. FLORISSANT FOSSIL BEDS, CO; DESOLATION CANYON, UT; WARD CHARCOAL OVENS STATE PARK, NV
D. NOME CULT TRAIL(California Trail of Tears)(what's one more totally different answer to 1D, I say?)
E. CO, UT, NV, CA-V=ACCOUNT
2. (Seattle)SPACE NEEDLE-L=NEED ESCAPE or NEEDS PEACE(I love TRUMP CASINO-N=CIAO TRUMPS! LOL)
3. CARHENGE, CAR HINGE(sorta rhymes with ORANGE!)
Menu
"Synful" Slice
SACRED, SACRILEGIOUS(sounds like "religious" at the end)
Entrees
1. SAMUEL MACE, the book of SAMUEL, ACME, EMMAUS, ELCA(Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
2. JOHN CROWE RANSOM, the books of JOHN and ROMANS
3. CARHUB, BARUCH
4. SINE SHAPE, EPHESIANS
5. LAST AGAIN, GALATIANS(SATAN, GILA)
6. CASINO LOSS, COLOSSIANS
7. SANTA(in "The Santa Clause"), NOEL(Christmas), TIM(Allen), LAMENTATIONS
Dessert
FERRIS WHEEL(ferrous wheel; "ferrous" means "made of metal")
I would've revealed my answers earlier today, but I had to take a nap to come down from the nitrous oxide at the dentist's office.-pjbIHadBecomeComfortablyNumb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
“Say why we’re famous, then name us!”
The last name a reasonably well-known person is also the name of a creature.
(For purposes of this puzzle, disregard the person’s first name.)
Remove some consecutive letters from both ends of the last name. Rearrange these letters to spell a seven-letter word for what the person is known for.
Take the letters you did not remove, in order. Change one to the letter preceding it in the alphabet. The result spells a word for what the creature is known to do.
Who is this person?
Answer:
Florence Nightingale
NIGH+ALE-->HEALING; TING-T+S-->SING
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Road-tripping and landmarking
Road Trip
1. In 1968 an American singer had a hit single about an essential worker in a midwest state who lived the high life.
This young worker had a girlfriend in a west coast city and, as he had a couple of weeks vacation saved up, he planned a road trip to see her. Coincidentally, there also happened to be a 1968 hit record about the city in which his beloved lady lived.
The young man mapped out a more-or-less direct route for this “romantic roadtrip.” Furthermore, he was also a natural history buff, and so along the way he decided to stop off at a landmark/tourist site... or two, or three.
Not counting his home state he travelled through four states in his quest reach his destination and darling. Along the way he visited a famous “fossil-formation” natural history site, a “desolate” geological marvel along the Green River, and a site featuring a half-dozen historic stone ovens that resemble behives (albeit not in the Beehive State... but nearby the Beehive State).
Serendipitously, as he neared his girlfriend’s state his journey ran parallel to a famous early American travel route, a historical bonus.
Take the postal codes of the four states the young worker traversed (not counting his home state). Drop one letter, leaving seven. Scramble these seven letters to spell a common word.
A. Where is this young essential worker from, city and state?
What does he do for work?
What is the name of the singer and the 1968 hit song?
What was the name of his famous group that produced this record?
B. What is the name of the city and state where the worker’s girlfriend lived.
What was the song about this city and who sang it on the hit record.
C. What are the three natural history sites he visited?
D. What was the historic route he paralleled as he got close to his girlfriend’s state?
E. What is the common word that you can form from seven of the eight letters in the postal codes of the four states?
Answer:
*A. The worker is from Wichita, Kansas.
He is "a lineman for the county."
Glen Campbell, ” Wichita Lineman”
The album of the same name was produced by The Wrecking Crew, recording studio greats.
B. San Jose,California;
“Do you know the way to San Jose.” Dionne Warwick.
C. Florissant Fossil beds, near Buena Vista, Colorado;
Desolation Canyon in Utah;
the Charcoal Ovens in Nevada.
D. the Pony Express route, near Carson City.
E. The common word is "ACCOUNT" (After leaving Kansas, the young worker traveled through Colorad (CO), Utah (UT), Nevada (NV) and finally to San Jose, California (CA), his girlfriend's home. Dropping a V from NV and rearranging results in: CO+UT+N+CA = ACCOUNT
* Note: The young man begins his road trip by cutting up from Wichita to U.S. Route 70 and, except for a few "natural historical" side trips, remaining on this route most of the way until reaching Nevada where he merges onto U.S. Route 50 which parallels the Pony Express at its origins, in Carson City.
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A state landmark and the global state
2. Name a famous U.S. state landmark in two words of five and six letters.
Drop the penultimate letter. Scramble lightly to get a two word assessment of world’s current condition.
Answer:
Space Needle=>Space Neede=>"Needs Peace"
An inspired but bizarre landmark
3. Name what some people might call a most bizarre Midwest U.S. landmark, in 11 letters. It was inspired both by an ancient English landmark and by a landmark in the the southern U.S. to which Bruce Springteen paid homage in song.
Change one letter in this bizarre Midwest landmark and divide the result into two words to name an auto part.
What is this auto part?
What is the “bizarre” Midwest landmark?
Answer:
Carhenge; Car hinge;
(Carhenge is an inspired spin-off of the Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire, England, and of Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas.)
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The first one-third of a synonym of “unholy” is also the first two-thirds of a synonym of “holy.”
The last three-fourths of this “unholy” synonym sounds like a different synonym of “holy.”
What is this synonym of “unholy”?
Hint: The final one-third of the synonym of holy mentioned in the first paragraph is a two-letter male name.
Answer:
Sacrilegious
(Sacr+ilegious is an synonym of "unholy"; Sacr+ed is a synonym of "holy"; "-rilegious" sounds like "religious," another synonym of holy)
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Open to the Book of Thespialonians
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker whose first name is a book of the Bible. His surname is an anagram of a four-letter synonym of “a mountain peak or pinnacle,” like the peaks of the biblical mountains of Carmel, Tabor, Zion, Ararat, Sinai and Olivet – each symbolizing “closeness” to a heavenly God.
The first five letters of the puzzle-maker’s first name and first letter of his surname can be rearranged to spell the destination of a road upon which the disciples significantly encountered Christ. The remaining letters of the puzzle-maker’s name can be rearranged to spell an initialism (http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/the-difference-between-an-acronym-and-an-initialism/) of a mainline Protestant organization whom one might learn more about this encounter.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the “mountain peak synonym?”
Where did the disciples significantly encounter Christ?
What is the initialism of the Protestant organization?
Answer:
Samuel Mace; MACE=>ACME=mountain peak;
The road to EMMAUS is where the disciples had a significant encounter with the risen Christ; At the ELCA (https://www.elca.org/) one might learn more about this encounter.
ENTREE #2
Name a reasonably well known poet whose first name is a book of the Bible and whose last name is an anagram of another book of the Bible. Who is it?
Note: The poet is known by a first, middle and last name. The middle name is the original surname of the poet’s mother, and is also the surname of an Oscar-winning actor.
Answer:
John Crowe Ransom; (the Gospel of John, St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans)
ENTREE #3
Name an online automobile marketplace that is an anagram of an apocryphal book of the Bible.
What is this marketplace?
What is the biblical book?
Hint: The biblical book is also an anagram of the letters in two words: A cheer heard at Wrigley Field, and the likely target of the cheer.
Answer:
CarHub; Baruch
Hint: "Rah!" Cub
ENTREE #4
A mathematical curve that describes a smooth periodic oscillation resembles the path of an automobile cruising up and down and up and down rolling countryside hills. We might therefore say that this automotive path traces a two-word term of four and five letters. The term rhymes with “wine grape.”
The “rolling hills” two-word term is an anagram of a New Testament biblical book.
What are this book and the term?
Answer:
Ephesians; Sine shape
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ENTREE #5
The New York Mets were born in 1962 when Major League Baseball’s National League expanded from eight to ten teams (The Houston Colt 45s were the other 1962 NL expansion team.)
During their first four years “the lovable Mets,” with colorful Casey Stengel at the helm, finished the season standing ion the cellar – tenth out ten teams. In 1966, however, the Mets finished in ninth place, ahead of the Chicago Cubs. Fans were hopeful.
Alas, in 1966 the Mets slid back into the cellar...
Exasperated Mets fans exclaimed a collective “____ _____!”
The combined letters of the words in those two blanks can be rearranged to spell a biblical book.
What is the exclamation? What is the book?
Answer:
"Last again!"; Galatians
ENTREE #6
About a dozen years ago a Nebraska businessman named Terrance Watanabe embarked on a yearlong gambling binge, placing exorbitant bets while playing blackjack and other games of chance at Caesars Palace and The Rio in Las Vegas. At year’s end, the man’s wallet was $127 million lighter.
Take a two-word term for what Mr. Watanabe suffered that year, in six and four letters. The second word in the term appears with a biblical book. The remaining letters of the book can be rearranged to spell the first word in the term.
What is the two-word term? What is the book?
Answer:
Casino loss; Colossians
ENTREE #7
A more-than-a-quarter-century-old movie, in three words, that has become a holiday staple.
Rearrange the combined letters of:
A. the middle word in the title,
B. a four-letter name for the holiday, and
C. The first name of the actor who plays the title character...
to spell the name of a biblical book.
What is this book?
What are the movie title, four-letter holiday and title-character actor?
Answer:
Lamentations; Noel, Santa (Claus), Tim (Allen)
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Elijah’s Chariot of Fire Dessert:
“She’s got a ticket to ride my seesaw”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICwIt47toMc (ticket)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CFFCfHDUU (seesaw)
Name something that takes passengers for a ride, in two words.
This ride-provider, when spoken aloud, sounds like a description of what it is made of.
What is it that takes passengers for a ride?
Answer:
Ferris wheel; (ferrous wheel, which is mad of commercial iron)
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