The Monkees (September 12) and the original TV version of Mission: Impossible (September 17) both celebrate their 60th anniversaries this year, so it’s time for some themed enigmas.
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| THE MONKEES, circa 1986 |
SUPER SECONDS🥈After the FAMOUS FIRSTS, what comes next?
The Monkees’ first big hit was ♫Last Train To Clarksville♫. What was their next?
TRIVIA TIME⌚
What was the address of the Monkees’ pad (residence)?
AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS
Lalo Schifrin is famous for composing the Mission: Impossible theme, among other works. But what did he originally name the theme?
WHO AM I?
Can you identify the person (real or fictitious) based upon the clue below?
I first led the Impossible: Mission Force before Peter Graves took over as Jim Phelps.
We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX 📦and discover the results from
the September 5, 2026 Puzzle Corner as we celebrated
Star Trek Day and the original series’ 60th anniversary.
Which was the first USS Enterprise that could separate its saucer section from the rest of the ship?
USS Enterprise, NCC 1701 PRIME!
According to the original 1976 Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual, the very first Enterprise had that capability, but it could only be done in an extreme emergency because it required a Starbase to reunite the two halves. But that feature wasn’t visually shown by any ship until Picard’s NCC 1701-D.
NUMBER PLEASE
Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.
How many different Star Trek series have there been, as of September 2026?
12/TWELVE! The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, Short Treks, Lower Decks, Prodigy, Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy.
Star Trek: Scouts is technically a YouTube channel exclusive and doesn’t count unless Paramount says otherwise.
TRIVIA TIME⌚
Two Star Trek: Voyager performers had cameos in the Star Trek: First Contact movie. One was blatantly obvious and the other wasn’t. Can you name them both?
While Robert Picardo reprised his role as the Emergency Medical Hologram for one scene, Ethan Phillips portrayed a maitre’d instead of Neelix in another.
THE LETTER SHUFFLE
How many new words can you form out of the letters in STAR TREK?
A, are, ark(s), art(s), as, aster {type of flower}, at, ate
Ear(s), eat(s), err(s)
Rare, rat(s), rate(s), rater(s), reak(s) {correct spelling of an old word meaning tricks}, rear(s), rest
Sake, sat, sate, sea, sear, seat, set, skate, skater, stake, staker, stare, starer, stark, start, state, steak
Take(s), taker(s), tart(s), taste, taster, tar(s), tare(s), tea(s), tear(s), test, {and} treat(s).
STAR and TREK don’t count because they were the original words but others than the 65 listed above might be possible.
