Saturday, August 13, 2016

THE PUZZLE CORNER: AUGUST 13, 2016

FUN FACT
Adding 32 to the number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds will give you the current temperature, but this only works in fair or better weather, since crickets don't like late fall or winter.

COMMON BONDS
The items in each subset below have something in common.
Do you know what it is?
01. {Birthdays, Crabs}
02. {Ovens, Uncles}

TRIVIA TIME
Considering how long the game in all its various incarnations has been around, do you know what POKEMON stands for?

We'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let's open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results of our Countries Quiz from the August 6, 2016 Puzzle Corner.

Something a specific country if famous for is listed below. Can you name the country?

01. Big Ben = England
02. The Eiffel Tower = France
03. The Maple Leaf = Canada, it's on their flag
04. Yosemite National Park = The United States of America
05. Cristo Redentor = The Christ the Redemer statue is in Brazil
06. The Wallace Monument = Scotland
07. Augusta Raurica = This is a famous landmark of Roman origin in Switzerland
08. La Gioconda = Better known as the Mona Lisa by Leonardo daVinci, in Italy
09. Kaiju Eiga = Monster movies, from Japan
10. The Picos de Europa = Spain

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