Friday, February 22, 2019

“What’s an 11-letter word for...?” Ten-grand/twenty-one twining; Oscar buzz & a Prezzy dozen; Stoking the star-maker fACTORy machinery; What’s the ninth WhiskeyOscarRomeoDelta?

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/21 SERVED

Schpuzzle Of The Week:
What’s the ninth WhiskeyOscarRomeoDelta?

India, Hotel, Mike, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Victor, Yankee
The list above contains words representing eight of 26 letters in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. (They would be helpful, however, only if you might ever be trying to convey the phrase “My Irish TV” 
orally: “MikeYankee IndiaRomeoIndiaSierraHotel TangoVictor.”)

But, here is your mission: You must find a ninth word in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet that relates to all eight words in this list. 
Explain how this ninth word you found relates to the other eight words.
Fun fact: The NATO Phonetic Alphabet consists of:
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, Xray, Yankee, Zulu.


Appetizer Menu 

A Number Of Conundrums Appetizer:
Stoking the star-maker fACTORy machinery


🥁1. Think of a ‘90s movie title in six words whose initials make a two-word phrase that a Spanish speaker might say to a woman. 
Hint: the movie stars a former Saturday Night Live cast member and was not critically successful.
🥁2. Name an athlete whose last name is a color. Name an actor whose first name sounds the same as the first name of the athlete but whose last name sounds like an office supply.
🥁3. Name the two characters a particular movie actor is best known for, each in five letters. Place them one after the other. Remove four letters from inside and replace with “SH” to name a children’s game.
🥁4. Think of a punk rock band name in seven letters. The first four letters in reverse are a male first name shared by a famous foreign actor. The actor’s last name, minus one letter, can be rearranged into a foreign language.
Answer:
🥁5. Think of a contemporary actor’s last name. Insert “dbo” somewhere inside to create a slang term for a frequent aspect of this actor’s physical appearance on film.
🥁6. Drop two vowels from the nonsense phrase “THANOS EMOJIS” and rearrange to name a television actor.


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Quizzical Slice:
Ten-grand/twenty-one twining

Twenty-One” and “The $10,000 Pyramid” are classic quiz/game shows. 
What else do the numbers “twenty-one” and “ten thousand” have in common?
Hint: The answer involves a palindromic three-digit semiprime number.
  

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Oscar buzz & a Prezzy dozen

Will Shortz’s February 17th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
The numbers 1, 12, 80, and million have something in common that only one other number has. 
What is it ... and what’s the other number?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
The dozen blanks in the sentences below can be filled in with words that are clues to the identities of twelve presidents. Solve for each blank and then identify each “egg” in this “presidential dozen.”
1. Though not himself much of a ______, he did invite Martha Graham to perform at the White House.
2. The ____ he will most likely be remembered for, alas, is “pardon.”
3. He had egg ___ all over his face for countenancing and perpetuating the antebellum yoke of slavery.
4. He was a kind, courteous and generous (some might say “lukewarm-to-a-fault”) man who viewed slavery as a question of property rather than morality; though not a ______ proponent of slavery, he often criticized those who sought to limit or end it. 
5. His legacy as a president is mixed, but he is generally considered by historians as a _____ as a general.
6. He sported a ___ of facial hair above his upper lip.
7. Although presidential historians have generally dismissed this chief executive, he admittedly had a knack for _______ talent into his Cabinet, including  Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover and Charles Evans Hughes.
8. His first presidential opponent, besides being four years his junior, was also more photogenic – which seems fitting since the younger candidate and the _____ camera were “born” in the same year!
9. He was not much of a fan of cheeses like _____, but he was fond of fruits, like quinces.
10. He relinquished his ______ as a naval officer (and as a gentleman farmer) to run for president.
11. He was popular in the wake of 9/11, but his star faded a few years later when he chose to ____ us into the the Iraq War, citing phantom weapons of mass destruction. (two answers are possible)
12. It seems his sole presidential asset is a proclivity to _____ his chest.

ENTREE #2:
“Lions and tigers, and no bears, oh why? Oh my!” 
Consider the following list of creatures:
“Lambs,” “Wolves,” “Deer,” “Elephant,” “Bull,” “Lion,” “Tiger,” “Horse,” “Dog” and “Cuckoo”
That “class menagerie” of critters can be found in the titles of movies nominated for an Academy Award Best Picture Oscar: 
“Silence of the Lambs”; “Dances with Wolves”; “The Deer Hunter”; “Elephant Man”; “Raging Bull”; “Lion”; “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”; “War Horse”; “Dog Day Afternoon”; “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.”
What movie with “Bear” or “Bears” in its title could conceivably have been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, thereby providing our “class menagerie” with an ursine presence?


ENTREE #3:
What two slangy body parts beginning with F and T are missing from the following list?
Jaws, Bone, Heart, Arms, Foot, ______, ______.
Hint: Again, Oscar is involved in the solving.


ENTREE #4:
Name four words for one body part. Each appears in a title of a movie that was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar but did not win. 
One word is not English. Two are slangy. What are these four words? 


Dessert Menu

Crosswordwise Palindromania Dessert:
“What’s an 11-letter word for...?”

The palindromic string of letters, OWHWO, represents the initial letters of a crossword-style clue. 
The answer to the clue contains 11 letters and begins with the first 2 letters of the third word of the clue. The clue would look a bit like this:
25.  O_ _ _ _   w_ _  h_ _  w_ _  O_ _ _ _ _.

The words beginning with W contain 3 letters each. The last word, a proper noun, is the plural of the first. 
What are this clue and answer?

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22 comments:

  1. Here I am at another ridiculous hour of the night.....with three exceptions (and possibly a couple of 'not so sures'), this set of puzzles went pretty well.

    Caught onto the Schpuzzle right away, but ONE of my answers doesn't seem to fit into the same narrow category that the others do...at least, I can't FIND one that does.

    I got lucky with Conundrums #3 thru 6, due to intuition and brief research. However, I've gotten nowhere with #'s1 and 2.

    Having then moved on to the Entrees, #1 was lengthy but fun ONCE I finally caught on to what was the gist (it took me till the eighth one within that first entree to do the 'aha' moment!).

    I'm pretty sure my answers to #4 are correct, but #2 seemed like there must be something MORE to it that I am missing....is there?

    And I have two answers for #3, but I'm not sure they are right, either.

    Dessert went fairly quickly, and was satisfying [Shouldn't all dessert be so? : o )]

    That brings me to the Quizzical slice, which I'd completely forgotten till I went to start this post. Studied up on semiprimes, which unbelievably, I'd never even been aware of (boy, that is sad)....but other than a more basic answer, I can't figure out what it has to do with the number hinted at.

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    1. ViolinTeddy,
      Good morning.
      ENTREE #2 is more of an open-ended "essay question" than a "right-or-wrong multiple choice question" or "fill-in-the-blank question." What it boils down to is this: Can you think of an Best Picture Oscar-worthy movie with "Bear" or "Bears" in its title?
      In ENTREE #3, the F and T words are one-word titles, like the word beginning with "J" in the list. These F and T titles were released about 21 years apart. They represent two different body parts.
      The category for my eight words in the Schpuzzle are much more broad than, say, the narrow category Will Shortz employed, for example, in his NPR puzzle this past week. It is sufficient in the Schpuzzle just to be a nominee for the (NINTH WORD) in pretty much any major or semi-major category.
      For the Quizzical Slice, I considered including a graphic aid (or chart) I have used on Puzzleria! in the past, but I thought it would be too much of a giveaway to include this week. It is a chart with sky-blue letters and blood-red numbers on a boring-tan background. I've used the graph more than one time; one time I used it was about 29 months ago.

      LegoWhoIfHeWereAColorWouldBeMoreBoringTanThanSkyBlueOrBloodRed

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    2. Getting back to you 24 hours later (!), LegoTan, I'm not sure I KNOW how to judge whether a movie is Oscar-worthy (re Entree 2)...I just put down the all of TWO movies I could find with the requisite word(s).

      Oddly enough, the two words I came up with for Entree 3 ARE 21 years apart, however, the second one must be wrong because it is NOT a single word title, rather in two words. So I'll have to hunt for something else.

      I appreciate knowing that I must be DONE with the Schpuzzle, based on what you said above.

      And I hunted for, and found, the 'giveaway' chart, but my answer still doesn't fill the palindromic semi-prime requirement. However, I came up with what I HOPE is a creative different idea for the answer. There WAS a bit of math involved.

      And I'm still stuck on Conundrums 1 and 2.

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  2. Happy Washington's Birthday(and for that matter, Happy Birthday to Rachel Dratch, a former SNL star I still have a crush on years later)!
    Tonight my family and I ate out at Pepito's, a Mexican restaurant here in Jasper. My niece Maddy could make it, but Mia Kate could not. She was at a sleepover at a friend's house. So Maddy had a friend of hers named Paisley Kate joining us. She seems nice. Then Mom and I came home and I did the Prize and Private Eye crosswords. Late last night I checked P! for the first time and managed to get every Conundrum except #2, and various parts of Entree #1 and Entree #2 and the Dessert. I'm still missing #3, #4, and #5 from Entree #1. Of course, hints will be required for the rest. And finally, again Happy 53rd Birthday to the original "Debbie Downer" herself(and I mean that in the nicest way possible, of course)!

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  3. Saturday Night Hints:

    Schpuzzle:
    VictorEchoAlphaLima...

    Conundrums:
    1. A three-word phrase that English speakers might sing about to a woman: "There she goes..."
    2. The athlete's last name is the color of the surface on which he often competes.
    3. Tough to think of a sly hint for this conundrum.
    4. The punk rock band was once ranked, by an influential magazine, very high on a list of greatest bands of all time, second only to the Beatles.
    5. The contemporary actor’s namesake is known for his novels, but fancied himself as more of a poet.
    6. In an early soap opera role the TV character expressed admiration for the musical stylings of Sting.

    QS:
    21: average value of one letter = 15.67
    10,000: average value of one letter = 12.82

    ROSS:
    1. Ah, days of YORE and what might have been: As the millennium turned, the GYRE of Yeats' falcon had already turned into planetary orbital proportions. The hopes of saving Earth seem waning, perhaps GONE, dashed and bloodied among a GORY slurry of fat, pregnant, dimpled or hanging chads.
    2. The only answer I can think of involves a Tatum not named Art.
    3. A "boot in the butt" pretty much encompasses the two words in my intended answer.
    4. The one word that is not English is French. One of the slangy words is an answer to ENTREE #3, the other is a backward diety.

    CPD:
    The answer might otherwise been clued as "Thor's tool and Oktoberfester's vessel."

    LimaEchoGolfOscar

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  4. I believe I have the Schpuzzle, but nothing else. The athlete's last name must be either Green or White.

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    1. Good deducing, cranberry.
      Green or White?
      Not Lenny, or Mean Joe. Think rather Bill, Reggie or Jo Jo.

      LegoTwinSteelerCardinalPacker(OrEagle)Celtic

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    2. Got it! Thanks again, Lego! Got anything else for the President puzzle? The slavery questions are tough!

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    3. The body part puzzles are tough too!

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    4. BTW tomorrow I have a dental appointment, and then I'm going to get a haircut. I may be late with my answers, and I still don't have everything yet. Hints please!

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  5. Hints:

    CONUNDRUM #2:
    #3 The answer is a homophone of the word in the puzzle text
    #4 it is a prez whose surname is an adjective
    #5 Ike was a general; what other prez was a general?

    CONUNDRUM #3:
    The slangy body parts are synonyms of "foot."

    DESSERT:

    The first letters in the 5-word clue:
    O_ _ _ _ W_ _ H_ _ W_ _ O_ _ _ _ _

    LegoPalindromic

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  6. India, Hotel, Mike, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Victor, Yankee > OSCAR [A Passage to India, Grand Hotel, ??Mike??, Romeo and Juliet (with ONE "t"}, Last Tango In Paris, Victor/Victoria, The Pride of the Yankees]
    Shaun White (snowboarder}; Sean Penn (actor)
    Ramones > Omar; Sharif > Farsi
    Tom Hardy
    John Stamos
    The Bad News Bears
    Fanny? & tummy?
    20+23+5+14+20+25+15+14+5 = 141 = 3x47 = 20+5+14+20+8+15+21+19+1+14+4 [Being lazy, I first did some cancellation (after following lego's pointer to the alphanumeric table), obtaining:
    wy = 53 = husad
    which, coincidentally, is Rachel Dratch's age.]

    Oscar who has won Oscars > Hammerstein

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  7. SCHPUZZLE: OSCAR. All the words are part of movie titles nominated for OSCAR's BEST PICTURE:

    THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL [Although "GRAND HOTEL" itself actually won];
    A PASSAGE TO INDIA;
    PAT AND MIKE (although I could find only a Best Writing/Screenplay nomination for this one)
    ROMEO AND JULIET;
    THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE;
    TANGO;
    VICTOR VICTORIA;
    YANKEE DOODLE DANDY

    CONUNDRUMS:

    1. I couldn't get this, despite going thru movie lists of SNL alumni

    2. GREEN?

    3. ROCKY/RAMBO => ROSHAMBO [ROCK PAPER SCISSORS]

    4. RAMONES => OMAR SHARIF minus "H" => FARSI

    5. TOM HARDY => HARD BODY

    6. THANOS EMOJIS minus E and I => JOHN STAMOS

    QUIZZICAL SLICE: 21 and 10,000 each have only TWO prime numbers as factors, 3 and 7, and 2 and 5. ALSO, 21 = U; and 10,000 = P (after going round the alphabet 384 times). That spells "UP", which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2010.

    ENTREES:

    1. (1) HOOFER; HOOVER (2) WORD; FORD (3) YOLK; POLK (4) FIERCE; PIERCE (5) GIANT; GRANT (6) TUFT; TAFT (7) HERDING; HARDING (8) NIKON; NIXON (9) EDAMS; ADAMS (10) CAREER; CARTER (11) PUSH; BUSH (12) THUMP; TRUMP

    2. BAD NEWS BEARS

    3. FANNY (1961) & TOOTSIE [1982] [Prior to hint, I had had 'TRAP', for Parent Trap, 1961]

    4. FOOT [My Left Foot, 1989]; TOOTSIE [1982]; DOG [Dog Day Afternoon, 1975]; PIED [in French; The Pied Piper, 1942]


    DESSERT: OSCAR WHO HAS WON OSCARS: HAMMERSTEIN [He won two.]

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  8. VT,
    Love your answer to my Quizzical Slice, not my intended, but wonderful.
    "Parent Trap" (with Haley Mills) very under-rated.
    Paul, Great post (as usual). Especially incorporating the age of Rachel Dratch (53) into the mix.

    LegoAppreciative

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  9. Schpuzzle
    OSCAR is the other word associated with the rest. All of the words are in the titles of Oscar-nominated films.
    A PASSAGE TO INDIA
    THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL or HOTEL RWANDA
    PAT AND MIKE
    ROMEO AND JULIET
    THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE
    TANGO or LAST TANGO IN PARIS
    VICTOR/VICTORIA
    YANKEE DOODLE DANDY or A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
    Appetizer Menu
    Conundrums
    1. SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER(starring Mike Myers), "SI MA'AM"
    2. SHAUN WHITE, SEAN PENN
    3. ROCKY, RAMBO, ROSHAMBO(rock, paper, scissors)
    4. RAMONES, OMAR SHARIF, FARSI
    5. TOM HARDY, HARD BODY
    6. JOHN STAMOS
    Menu
    Entree #1
    1. HOOFER, HOOVER
    2. WORD, FORD
    3. YOLK, POLK
    4. FIERCE, PIERCE
    5. GIANT, GRANT
    6. TUFT, TAFT
    7. HERDING, HARDING
    8. NIKON, NIXON
    9. EDAMS, (John Quincy)ADAMS
    10. CAREER, CARTER
    11. PUSH, BUSH(Senior)or(George W.)BUSH
    12. THUMP, TRUMP
    Dessert
    HAMMERSTEIN(Oscar who has won Oscars)
    And the award for Best Puzzlemaker besides Will Shortz goes to...Legolambda!-pjb

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  10. This week's official answers for the record, Part 1:

    Schpuzzle Of The Week:
    What’s the ninth WhiskeyOscarRomeoDelta?

    India, Hotel, Mike, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Victor, Yankee
    The list above contains words representing eight of 26 letters in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. (They would be helpful, however, only if you might ever be trying to convey the phrase “My Irish TV” orally: “MikeYankee IndiaRomeoIndiaSierraHotel TangoVictor.”)
    Name a ninth word in the alphabet that relates to all eight words in the list.
    Explain how this ninth word relates to the other eight words.
    Fun fact: The NATO Phonetic Alphabet consists of:
    Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu.
    Answer:
    Oscar; Each is a word in a movie title that either won or was nominated for an Oscar in some category:
    "A Passage to INDIA" (1984) Best Picture nominee
    "Grand HOTEL" (1931-32); Outstanding Production winner
    "Pat and MIKE" (1952) Best Writing, Story and Screenplay, nominee (Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin)
    "ROMEO and Juliet" (1968) Best Picture nominee
    "The Treasure of the SIERRA Madre" (1948) Best Picture nominee
    "Last TANGO in Paris" (1973) Best Actor in a Leading Role nominee (Marlon Brando)
    "VICTOR/Victoria" (1982) Best Actress in a Leading Role (Julie Andrews)
    "YANKEEe Doodle Dandy" (1942); Best Actor in a Leading Role winner (James Cagney),

    A Number Of Conundrums Appetizer:
    Stoking the star-maker FactorY machinery
    1. Think of a ‘90s movie title in six words whose initials make a two-word phrase that a Spanish speaker might say to a woman.
    Hint: the movie stars a former Saturday Night Live cast member and was not critically successful.
    SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER, SI MA’AM
    2. Name an athlete whose last name is a color. Name an actor whose first name sounds the same as the first name of the athlete but whose last name sounds like an office supply.
    SHAUN WHITE, SEAN PENN
    3. Name the two characters a particular movie actor is best known for, each in five letters. Place them one after the other. Remove four letters from inside and replace with “SH” to name a children’s game.
    ROCKY, RAMBO, ROSHAMBO
    4. Think of a punk rock band name in seven letters. The first four letters in reverse are a male first name shared by a famous foreign actor. The actor’s last name, minus one letter, can be rearranged into a foreign language.
    Answer:
    RAMONES, OMAR SHARIF, FARSI
    5. Think of a contemporary actor’s last name. Insert “dbo” somewhere inside to create a slang term for a frequent aspect of this actor’s physical appearance on film.
    (Tom) HARDY, HARDBODY
    6. Drop two vowels from the nonsense phrase “THANOS EMOJIS” and rearrange to name a television actor.
    JOHN STAMOS

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    Quizzical Slice:
    Ten-grand twenty-one twining
    “Twenty-One” and “The $10,000 Pyramid” are classic quiz/game shows.
    What else do the numbers “twenty-one” and “ten thousand” have in common?
    Hint: The answer involves a palindromic three-digit semiprime number.
    Answer:
    The alphanumeric values of the sums of the letters in "twenty-one" and in "ten thousand" both equal 141.
    TWENTY-ONE = 20+23+5+14+20+25+15+14+5 = 141
    TEN THOUSAND = 20+5+14+20+8+15+21+19+1+14+4 = 141 (141 is a palindromic three-digit semiprime number.)

    Lego...

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  11. This week's official answers for the record, Part 2:

    Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
    Prezzy dozen & Oscar buzz
    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
    ENTREE #1:
    The dozen blanks in the sentences below can be filled in with words that are clues to the identities of twelve presidents. Solve for each blank and then identify this “presidential dozen.”
    Answer:
    1. Though not himself much of a HOOFER, he did invite Martha Graham to perform at the White House. (Herbert Hoover)
    2. The WORD he will most be remembered for, alas, is “pardon.” (Gerald Ford)
    3. He had egg YOLK all over his face for encouraging and perpetuating the antebellum yoke of slavery. (James Polk)
    4. He was a kind, courteous and generous (some might say “lukewarm-to-a-fault”) man who viewed slavery as a question of property rather than morality; though not a FIERCE proponent of slavery, he often criticized those who sought to limit or end it. (Franklin Pierce)
    5. His legacy as a president is mixed, but he is generally considered by historians as a GIANT of a general. (Ulysses Grant)
    6. He sported a TUFT of facial hair above his upper lip. (William Taft)
    7. Although presidential historians have generally dismissed this, he admittedly had a knack for HERDING talent into his Cabinet, including Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover and Charles Evans Hughes, for example. (Warren Harding)
    8. His first presidential opponent was not only four years his junior, and more photogenic – which seems fitting since the younger candidate and the NIKON camera were “born” in the same year! (Richard Nixon)
    9. He was not much of a fan of cheeses like EDAMS, but he was fond of fruits like quinces. (John Quincy Adams)
    10. He relinquished his CAREER as a naval officer (and as a gentleman farmer) to run for president. (Jimmy Carter)
    11. He did kind of (RUSH or PUSH) us into the the Iraq War. (two answers are possible) (George W. Bush)
    12. It seems his sole presidential asset is a proclivity to THUMP his chest. (Donald Trump)
    ENTREE #2:
    “Lions and tigers, and no bears, oh why? Oh my!” Consider the following list of creatures:
    “Lambs,” “Wolves,” “Deer,” “Elephant,” “Bull,” “Lion,” “Tiger,” “Horse,” “Dog” and “Cuckoo”
    That “class menagerie” of critters can be found in the titles of movies nominated for an Acdemy Award Best Picture Oscar:
    “Silence of the Lambs”; “Dances with Wolves”; “The Deer Hunter”; “Elephant Man”; “Raging Bull”; “Lion”; “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”; “War Horse”; “Dog Day Afternoon”; “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.”
    What movie with “Bear” or “Bears” in its title could conceivably have been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, thereby providing our “class menagerie” with an ursine presence?
    Answer:
    "Bad News Bears" (or any other ideas?)
    ENTREE #3:
    What two slangy body parts are missing from the following list?
    Jaws, Bone, Heart, Arms, Foot, _______, _____
    Answer:
    Tootsie ("Tootsie"); Fanny ("Fanny")
    These body parts can be found in the titles of movies nominated for an Acdemy Award Best Picture Oscar: "Jaws"; "Winter's Bone"; "Places in the Heart"; "A Farewell to Arms"; ""My Left Foot" or "One Foot in Heaven"
    ENTREE #4:
    Name four words for one body part. Each appears in a title of a movie that was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar but did not win.
    One word is not English. Two are slangy. What are these four words?
    Answer:
    Foot, Tootsie, Dog, Pied (French for "foot")
    "My Left Foot" (1989) or "One Foot in Heaven" (1941)
    "Tootsie" (1982)
    "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975)
    "The Pied Piper" (1942)

    Lego...

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  12. This week's official answers for the record, Part 3:

    Dessert Menu
    Crosswordwise Palindromia Dessert:
    “What’s an 11-letter word for...?”
    The palindromic string of letters, OWHWO, represents the initial letters of a crossword-style clue. The answer to the clue contains 11 letters and begins with the first 2 letters of the third word of the clue. The words beginning with W contain 3 letters each. The last word, a proper noun, is the plural of the first. What are this clue and answer?
    Answer:
    "Oscar Who Has Won Oscars"; Hammerstein

    Lego!

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  13. I meant to mention the other Entrees, but I absentmindedly skipped ahead. I did at least know "The Bad News Bears".

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