Saturday, July 20, 2013

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JULY 20, 2013

We're having a heatwave! It's the seventh straight day of 90+ days where The Free Choice E-zine offices are located, so let's keep cool with some interesting enigmas.

FAMOUS FIRSTS
What was the very first single by a British band to reach #1 on the American music charts?

TRIVIA TIME
What is Eigengrau?

We'll reveal all next weekend.
But for now, let's peek inside THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from the July 13, 2013 Puzzle Corner.


COMMON BONDS
The items within each subset have something in common. Do you know what it is? And yes, we know they are all actors.

01. {Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roger Moore, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, Tom Baker}
ALL THESE ACTORS HAVE PORTRAYED SHERLOCK HOLMES
02. {Warner Oland, Sidney Toler, Roland Winters, Peter Ustinov, Ross Martin}

ALL THESE ACTORS HAVE PORTRAYED CHARLIE CHAN
03. {The answers to groups 1 and 2}

HOLMES AND CHAN ARE DETECTIVES.

TRIVIA TIME
If you have correctly answered all the COMMON BONDS questions above, then who is accredited with creating the spotlighted genre?

EDGAR ALLAN POE IS ACCREDITED WITH CREATING THE MYSTERY GENRE.

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