Saturday, November 5, 2011

THE PUZZLE CORNER: NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Daylight Saving Time ends in the United States tonight. So let us examine the situation a little more closely.


TRIVIA TIME
The extension of Daylight Saving Time into March and early November was an act of a more recent Congress. But when did that august body first adopt the practice of DST?


THE LETTER SHUFFLE
Since we will have less of it as winter takes its hold, just how many words can you make out of the letters in the word DAYLIGHT?


We'll reveal all next weekend, but hopefully not in the dark.
Meanwhile, let's peek inside THE ANSWERS BOX, and discover who was singing what during our Halloween Hijinks Quiz in October 29's Puzzle Corner.


01. "Cause everyday is Halloween for me (for me, for me)"
Perform This Way by "Weird" Al Yankovic.
02. "Without their souls or getting down"
Thriller by Michael Jackson and Vincent Price.
03. "Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?"
The Monster Mash by ? (Question Mark) and the Mysterians.
04. "It's just a jump to the left"
Let's Do The Time Warp Again, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
05. "And he taught me the way to win your heart."
Witch Doctor by David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian, Senior), Alvin and the Chipmunks (and long time Free Choice E-zine readers knew that one would be here somewhere).
06. "So I proposed, on Halloween"
Spooky by The Classics IV (4)
07. "Thirteen month old baby"
Superstition by Stevie Wonder
08. "I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen"
Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
09. "While grown up sight covers him with fright"
From the Casper, The Friendly Ghost Theme Song.
10. "I ain't afraid of no ghosts!"
Ghostbusters! Theme song by Ray Parker, Junior

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