Showing posts with label February 22. Show all posts
Showing posts with label February 22. Show all posts

Saturday, February 22, 2025

THE PUZZLE CORNER: FEBRUARY 22, 2025

 😎FUN FACT
2025 is the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, so let’s celebrate with some fun and games.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇
When the series started in 1975, who was the very first guest host?

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS
While famous as SNL today, what name did the series originally start with?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the February 15, 2025 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME
What is Dartitis?

WHO AM I?
Can you identify the person (real or fictitious) based upon the clue below?
Although a lady I made tools, including inventing the circular saw.
Sarah “Tabitha” Babbitt.

Saturday, February 22, 2020

THE PUZZLE CORNER: FEBRUARY 22, 2020

😎FUN FACT
In the United States, ironically Little Rock, Arkansas is a bigger city than Boulder, Colorado.

THE 50/50 CHANCE
Just like a regular TRIVIA TIME question, except there are just two possible answers, hence the even odds of getting it right. Ready?
TRUE or FALSE: Cucumbers🥒 are good for canines.🐕

WHAT’S THAT SONG?
Words from a tune of the past are below. All you have to do is give us the song title. Ready?
♫I can’t take anymore. It’s not you. You let me down again.♫

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the February 15, 2020 Puzzle Corner.

RHYME TIME⌛
The clue to something is below, but no matter how long your answer is, each word within it must rhyme. Ready?
V.I.P. = Bigwig.

TRIVIA TIME⌚
What famous Aerosmith hit was actually inspired by Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein?
♫Walk This Way♫, based on a line said by Marty Feldman’s character in the movie.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

SUNDAY FUNNIES: THIS AND THAT (random jokes)

Hello folks! Autumn the Puppy here.
Yes, the weather is still abominable here in my neck of the woods. LOTS of snow and bitterly cold temperatures, with more of the same expected to at least finish out February, if not taking us into the beginning of March 2015 as well.

But you folks came here to be entertained for a few minutes, so let's see what I can dig up.



Why did the flamingo stand on just one leg?
If he had tried standing on no legs, he would have fallen down.

A boy walks into a pet shop and asks, "Can you please sell me a shark?"
The pet shop owner looks at the boy and asked, "Why do you want to buy a shark?"
The boy's answer was, "My cat's been trying to get into the fish tank and I want to teach it a lesson."

What do you get when you cross a pig and a parakeet?
A bird that hogs the conversation.

What letters are NOT in the alphabet?
The ones in your mailbox.

What did zero say to eight?
Nice belt.     0   8

For those in the audience who have a photographic memory, what kind of film do you use?

Would a ticklish subject be the study of feathers?

What's the difference between
here and there?
The letter T.
What has 8 legs, 3 heads, 2 arms, and 2 wings?
A man, riding a horse, carrying a chicken.

Have a great week everybody. Stay safe, and please be back here next weekend for more Sunday Funnies!—AtP.

Saturday, February 22, 2014

THE PUZZLE CORNER: FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Hello Everybody. Lots of ground to cover today, starting with the fact that because of our Memorial Edition of Trivia Time last weekend, (February 15), we didn't get to run our annual PRESIDENTS DAY FAMOUS FIRSTS QUIZ.
Regards of your political views or beliefs, do you know....

Who was the first President of the United States…?
01. To have previously served as Vice President?
02. To serve without a Vice President?
03. To hold the office as an Independent? (And yes, it has been done.)
04. To hold the office as a Democrat?
05. To hold the office as a Republican?
06. To be born in the United States after it became an independent country?
07. To not be born within the continental United States?
08. To be born in a hospital?
09. To physically live in the White House?
10. To work in the Oval Office? (The West Wing, where it resides, was a later addition.)
11. To remarry while in office?
12. To ever have his photograph taken?
13. To ever use a telephone?
14. To ever speak on radio?
15. To ever appear on television?
16. To ever make a coast to coast TV broadcast?
17. To delay delivery of the annual State of the Union address?

NOTE: EACH ANSWER IS JUST ONE PRESIDENT.

As usual, we'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let's open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results of that aforementioned MEMORIAL TRIVIA TIME QUIZ.
Johnson in "Black Saddle", 1960

TRIVIA TIME: RUSSELL JOHNSON
Although he performed other roles before and after, Johnson will probably be best remembered as The Professor on Gilligan's Island, but what was the character's actual name? Roy Hinkley.

Madden, circa 1970s

TRIVIA TIME: DAVE MADDEN
While perhaps best known as Ruben Kincaid on The Partridge Family, what was Madden's first job in show business? Stand up comic.

Seeger, circa June 2007
TRIVIA TIME: PETE SEEGER
While there are many accomplishments within his legendary career both on and off the musical stage, what musical instrument is Seeger accredited with introducing to American audiences?

The Steel Pan Drum.
The Steel Pan Drum

Schell, circa 1970s
TRIVIA TIME: MAXIMILIAN SCHELL
What movie role within his long acting career won Schell an Oscar?

Hans Wolfe in Judgement In Nuremberg, 1961.


Temple the Ambassador
TRIVIA TIME: SHIRLEY TEMPLE-BLACK
While the world will remember her fabled acting career as a child star during The Great Depression, she later distinguished herself as an American ambassador to what countries? Ghana (1975-1976) and Czechoslovakia (1989-1992).
Caesar, circa 1961

TRIVIA TIME: SID CAESAR
There is no way to sum up this man's illustrious comedic career in just a few words, but what was his FIRST television show? The Admiral Broadway Revue (1949). True story: the show was cancelled after 26 weeks NOT because of poor ratings, but because Admiral couldn't keep up with the consumer demand for television sets!

Waite, circa 2012
TRIVIA TIME: RALPH WAITE
In what is perhaps his most remembered role, what was the full name of his character on The Waltons? Many e-mailed saying John Walton, but because Richard Thomas played "John Boy", aka: John Walton, Junior; that made Waite's character John Walton SENIOR!