Showing posts with label Hall and Oates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hall and Oates. Show all posts

Saturday, April 12, 2014

THE PUZZLE CORNER: APRIL 12, 2014

The 2014 Major League Baseball season is well underway here in the United States, so let's play ball with some new enigmas!

COMMON BONDS
While everybody within the subset below is the scoreboard designation for specific baseball teams, each group also has something else in common.
Do you know what it is?
01. {LAD, OAK, PIT, SEA}
02. {ARI, MIA, TEX}
03. {DET, MIN}

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
How many new words can you spell out of the letters in BASEBALL?
There's more than you think.

We'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let's open THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from the April 5, 2014 Puzzle Corner.

Hall and Oates
FAMOUS FIRSTS
The musical duo's first names are Daryl Hall and John Oates.

TRIVIA TIME
Trivia Time picture from April 5, 2014









The unique relationship between the two items pictured on the left is that you could stick a pencil (or pen) through one of the cassette sprockets to take up any slack in the tape.

Saturday, April 5, 2014

THE PUZZLE CORNER: APRIL 5, 2014

It's the first weekend of a new month, and puzzle fans know what that means!

Hall & Oates, circa 2008
FAMOUS FIRSTS
Everyone knows of the musical duo Hall and Oates.
But do you know what their FIRST names are?

TRIVIA TIME
First, look at the picture below.

Trivia Time Question




The question is: do you know what the unique relationship between these two objects was?

We'll reveal all next weekend.
But for now, let's open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results of the March 29, 2014 Puzzle Corner!



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

01. {Coffee, tea}
And yes, we know they are both beverages.

But both can also be served Hot or Cold!
02. {Bullwinkle Moose, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Homer Simpson}
And yes, we know they are all cartoon characters.

But everyone also shares the same middle name: Jay!

WHO AM I?
Based upon the clue below, can you identify the specific person?

According to her theme song:
♪ She knows her Proverbs, A to Z; and knows the good they bring
But when she has to follow them, well that's another thing! ♫


Our mystery person is: Little Audrey from Harvey Comics and Cartoons!




Here she is, from 1954's The Seapreme Court, by Famous
(formerly the Fleischer) Studios. Video courtesy of YouTube.