Saturday, January 4, 2025

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JANUARY 4, 2024

 😎FUN FACT
At least half of all New Year’s Resolutions get abandoned by the second Friday of January.

FAMOUS FIRST NAMES
Some famous television characters are only known by one name, yet do have a rarely mentioned first name. Can you say what the first name of each one listed below is? To help, we’ve listed the actor/actress involved.
01. MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson or Lucas Till)
02. “Punky” Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye)
03. Deputy Marshall McCloud (Dennis Weaver)
04. Lieutenant Columbo (Peter Falk)

THE 50/50 CHANCE
Just like a regular TRIVIA TIME question except there are only two possible answers, hence the even odds of getting it right. Ready?
TRUE or FALSE: Being made decades apart, Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 epic 2001: A Space Odyssey and the 1984 sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact featured totally different casts.

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the December 28, 2024 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚
A small group of Christmas specials have aired on commercial television every year since their respective debuts. Can you name them? HINT: They all debuted in the 1960s.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer🦌 since 1964, Doctor Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas since 1966 and Frosty The Snowman⛄ since 1969.
A Charlie Brown Christmas🎄 was in contention from 1965-2021 before the entire Peanuts video library went exclusively to Apple+.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
How many new words can you make out of the letters in NEW YEAR?
A, an, any, are, aye
Ear, earn, ewe, eye
Nay, nee, near
Ran, raw, ray, renew
War, ware, warn, way, wean, wear, weary, were, wren
Yarn, yaw, yawn, yea, yearn

New and Year don’t count because they were part of the original phrase. Other words than the 30 listed above might be possible.

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