Answer Page

Here are the answers to various puzzles/quizzes on this blog. 

Format: Most recent puzzle will be on top.  You will see the date the puzzle was posted, and then a white space.  The answer to the puzzle will be written in White, so you will have to highlight the text to read it.

7/29/04: Thursday Puzzle

Bring Up the Rear

7/28/04: Another Word Puzzle

Arthur Conan Doyle

7/28/04: More Word Games

1) Cheers; Escher (famous for his 'transformation' art)

2) Steinbeck ; Beet's nick

3) Tolkein; Not like

1) Langston Hughes - Dream of Freedom

2) Lewis Carroll - Hunting of the Snark

3) William Carlos Williams - This is Just to Say

4) WH Auden - The Unknown Citizen

5) Walt Whitman - Song of Myself

6/11/04: Literary Brain Teaser

Robert Frost's poem, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening."

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

6/3/04 TV Trivia

1)  What sex were the first five Lassies? (if not all)

Male

2)  A cast member of "Matlock" Co-starred at one time with a cast member of Happy Days on a 3rd series.  Name this show and the characters' full names.

The Andy Griffith Show.  Ron(nie) Howard played Opie Taylor, and Andy Griffith played Andy Taylor. (Howard was Richie Cunningham on Happy Days, and Andy Griffith was Matlock)

3)  Name the actress and character on Star Trek:TNG who stabbed Q in the hand
    with a fork to test whether he actually was human or not.

Whoopi Goldberg - Guinan

4)  Who was constantly saying,  "Missed it by thaaaaat much"

Maxwell Smart on Get Smart (played by Don Adams)

5)  Who was Speed Racer's brother?

Racer X (or Rex Racer)

6)  "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
    Name the TV show.

WKRP in Cincinatti (on a Thanksgiving episode where the station pulled a 'stunt' that went terribly awry involving a helicopter and several turkeys.)

7)  Darren married Samantha.  They had two kids: One was named Tabitha.  Name
    the other one.       

Adam.  (The show was of course Bewitched)

8) Where did Janet and Chrissy first see Jack Tripper?  

In their bathtub the morning after a party they threw for their original roommate's departure

9) name the tv show where 2 cousins looked exactly alike.

The Patty Duke Show

10) What was the profession of Hazel

Housekeeper/maid

11) What musical instrument did Jack Benny "play"?

Violin

12) What were the two "sisters" names on Bosom Buddies.  What were the names
    of these two characters when they weren't sisters?

Buffy/Hildegarde Henry/Kip  (not sure which matches with which)  The guys masqueraded as females in order to live in an all-female apartment.

13) Smurfs:Gargamel :: GummyBears:______   (complete syllogism)

Duke Ichthorn

14) What PBS show contained:The Adventures of Letter Man!

Electric Company

15) Name the pig from Green Acres

Arnold

6/1/04 Real Names

1)  Judy Garland - Actress/Singer - Real name: Frances Gumm
2)  Bob Dylan - Singer/Songwriter - Real name: Robert Zimmerman
3)  Natalie Portman - Actress - Real name: Natalie Hershlag  (*)
4)  George Burns - Actor - Real name: Nathan Birnbaum
5)  Marilyn Monroe - Actress - Real Name: Norma Jean Mortenson Baker
6)  Shalom Aleichem - Author - Real Name: Solomon Rabinowitz (**)
7)  Mark Twain - Author - Real Name: Samuel L. Clemens
8)  Mary Westmacott - Author - Real Name: Agatha Christie (published romance novels under pseudonym)
9)  Richard Bachman - Author - Real Name: Stephen King (published early stories under pseudonym)
10) Lyle Monroe - Author - Real Name: Robert Heinlein (published early stories under pseudonym)

(*) Natalie Portman is best known perhaps for her role as Queen Amidala in Star Wars episodes #1-3

(**) Shalom Aleichem is best known for the short stories in his collection "Modern Children" involving Tevye the Dairyman and his six or seven daughters - which were the basis for the musical Fiddler on the Roof.

Nobody assumes the other names (real or pseudonyms) are well-known enough not to need footnotes.

5/27/04 Logically Speaking

Who Broke the Vase: Kristen did.  (Relatively easy.  If all statements were false, then Kristen had to be the guilty culprit)

This Logic Puzzle is Odd

(Title is to suggest that we are speaking about the odds.  We don't have enough information to be sure.)

For the chart below, assume

N=Nobody, C=Christy, J=Jim

A = knave, I = knight, & O = normal.

Here are the six possibilities:
N C J
A I O
A O I
I A O
I O A
O A I
O I A

The first condition & the last 2 conditions cannot occur because contradictions would occur. In 2 of the second, third, & fourth possibilities, the knight is Nobody, the person who claims to love cats. You would be wisest to bet on Nobody, as there is better than a 66% chance that that individual is a knight

5/20/04 1982 St. Louis Cardinals by Position

LF Lonnie Smith
CF Willie McGee
RF "Silent" George Hendrick

(*it is possible nobody has LF and RF switched, but we don't believe so.  Tito Landrum was a 4th outfielder, but we believe McGee got more starts.)

1B Keith Hernandez
2B Tom Herr
SS Ozzie Smith
3B Ken Oberkfell

C Darrell Porter

3 starting pitchers: Joaquin Andujar, Bob Forsch, John Stupor  (note: no single Cardinals pitcher in 1982 had more than 15 wins) 

Extra Bonus: Backup Catcher Glenn Brummer stole home in a late August game

Manager Whitey Herzog has a wonderful quote that goes something like "If a manager has great players, who perform well, he's called a genius."

5/18/04

1.  Answer: Man (crawls on four legs as baby, walks on two legs as an adult, walks with cane when old)  Source: Riddle of the Sphinx

2. Original Answer: The One Ring (One Ring to Rule Them All and in the Darkness Bind Them)  Source: The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein   (Gollum and Bilbo were in a Riddle competition, and Bilbo reached into his pocket, found the ring which he didn't know was there, and he asked the question of himself out loud.  Gollum accused him of cheating with an unfair riddle.)

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