PUZZLE CORNER: MAY 3, 2025

 😎FUN FACT

May 4 is International Star Wars Day, so let’s celebrate with some fun and games. May the Fourth be with you.

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS

What was George Lucas’ original title for what eventually became Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope?

TRIVIA TIME⌚

What characters appeared throughout all nine movies of the original three trilogies?

THE LETTER SHUFFLE

Do you know how many other words you can make out of the letters in STAR WARS?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the April 26, 2025 Puzzle Corner.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

What was the first movie to ever have a soundtrack album?

Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

BEFORE AND AFTER

Two separate items share at least one word, and so can be combined to create something new. Based upon the clue below, do you know what the new thing is?

A President turned scientist. = George Washington Carver. Carver, who made many improvements to agriculture to help farmers in his lifetime, was actually named after the first President of the United States.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JULY 1, 2023

 😎FUN FACT

George Lucas approved Mel Brooks’ parodying the original Star Wars trilogy in his film Spaceballs on the condition there would never be any merchandise. While everything from action figures to place mats were shown during the movie as a gag, no one knows what happened to all of the prototypes since then.

HUH?

The misquote is below. All you have to do is give us the correct quote and source. Ready?

♫Where Vinnie meets this guy I’ll be bailing.♫

THE LETTER SHUFFLE

How many new words can you form from the letters in INDEPENDENCE?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the June 24, 2023 Puzzle Corner.

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 Bonanza theme song had lyrics.

Answer: True! While every episode opened with just the instrumental version it was only sang once, by the show’s stars in character at the end of the pilot episode.

FILL IN THE BLANKS

All you have to do is what the title says, literally fill in the blanks to acquire the answer. The given letters are all shown, none of those are missing. Ready?

PERSON: John Romita, Senior; famous Marvel Comics artist who recently passed away. Italicized letters were given.