THE PUZZLE CORNER: NOVEMBER 11, 2023

 😎FUN FACT

Today is Veterans' Day in the United States, honoring and remembering all who severed to protect this country past, present and future.

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: The following line from The Flintstones theme song is correct.

♫Let’s ride, with the family down the street

Through the courtesy of Fred’s new heap.♫

NUMBER PLEASE

Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.

On M*A*S*H, how many bug outs (camp evacuations) were performed under Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the November 4, 2023 Puzzle Corner.

COMMON BONDS

The items in each subset below have something in common. Do you know what it is?

01. {Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi} and we already know about the various roles in their respective acting careers. ANSWER: Both men were also co-founders of the Screen Actors Guild.

02. {J, Q} and yes, we know they are both consonants. ANSWER: They are the only two letters of the alphabet that do not appear within the periodic table of elements.

⌚TRIVIA TIME

Where did India Ink originate?

Despite the name, it was created in China.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: NOVEMBER 4, 2023

 😎FUN FACT

The more complicated or darker in color a towel design is, the less absorbent the towel will be because it is already holding in the design’s printing dyes.

COMMON BONDS

The items in each subset below have something in common. Do you know what it is?

01. {Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi} and we already know about the various roles in their respective acting careers.

02. {J, Q} and yes, we know they are both consonants.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Where did India Ink originate?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the October 28, 2023 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

What is petrichor? The formal name for how things smell after a rain storm.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE

How many new words could you make out of the letters in HALLOWEEN?

A, all, allow, an, awl

Eel, ell (building extension), eon, ewe

Ha, hall, hallow, heal, he, heel, hell, hello, hole, how, howl

Law, lawn, lea, lean, loan, low

New, no, Noel, now

Oh, on, owl

Wall, we, wean, wee, ween, well, who (and) whole.

More than the 41 listed above might be possible.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: NOVEMBER 2, 2013

Last weekend, we celebrated the 195th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with a quiz.
This weekend, we honor the 75th anniversary of the historic War of the Worlds radio broadcast the same way.

Orson Welles, circa 1937 via Wikipedia

01. Where did author H. G. Wells set his original novel, from which the drama was based?
02. What do the initials H. G. in the author's name actually stand for?
03. What was the name of the acting company, led by Orson Welles (no relation to the original author), that did the radio drama?
04. The radio drama reset the story to where?
05. How did this simple radio drama lead to "The Night That Panicked America"?
06. How were the Martians eventually defeated?

We'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let us peek inside THE ANSWERS BOX, and reveal the results of that aforementioned Frankenstein quiz from the October 26, 2013 Puzzle Corner.

01. What is the subtitle of Shelley's novel? The Modern Prometheus
02. What is the official name of our honoree?
The creature was never given any. Many just considered it Frankenstein's Monster, although it was

Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster, via Wikipedia

the movies that shortened it to just Frankenstein.
03. Who was the very first actor to portray our honoree on the silver screen?
Charles Ogle, in a 1910 adaptation by Thomas Edison as a demonstration of his motion picture camera.
04. TWO actors have portrayed our honoree THREE times in movies. Can you name them both?
Boris Karloff and Glenn Strange. See the image below for more details.
05. Who was the first actor to officially portray our honoree on television?
Many answered Fred Gwynne, but Herman Munster was only Frankenstein based, not the actual creature. So the correct answer is Randy Quaid in a 1992 adaptation of the novel.
06. Who was the first actor to officially portray our honoree in a comedic role?
Again, many people answered Fred Gwynne, so the late actor should be honored. However it was Peter Boyle in 1974's Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks. Strange was the straight man/monster to Abbott and Costello in the 1948 movie.
07. Who was the first actor to portray our honoree when the movies had the character cross paths with another monster? The legendary Bela Lugosi in 1943's Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.