THE PUZZLE CORNER: JUNE 26, 2021

😎 FUN FACT

In the script’s first draft, the Monty Python troupe would have found the Holy Grail in Harrods’ Department Store!

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

Who was the first actress to break the seven figure salary mark for a movie?

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?

The Robinsons binge watch a 1960s Hanna-Barbera series.

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the June 19, 2021 Puzzle Corner.

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: Actor John Wayne participated in Star Wars IV: A New Hope?

TRUE! While a minor part, his voice was used for the character Garindian to help with his fight against cancer.

WHO AM I?

Can you identify the person (real or fictitious) based upon the clue below?

♫Get his planet on the phone. Ain’t no time to waste.♫

Many thought we were referencing E.T.-The Extraterrestrial, but those are the opening lines to the theme song from Howard the Duck’s 1986 movie.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JUNE 19, 2021

😎FUN FACT

The famous Hollywood sign started life as the marque for a real estate development!

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: Actor John Wayne participated in Star Wars IV: A New Hope?

WHO AM I?

Can you identify the person (real or fictitious) based upon the clue below?

♫Get his planet on the phone. Ain’t no time to waste.♫

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the June 12, 2021 Puzzle Corner.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE

How many new words can you form out of the letters in SOLSTICE?

Cel(s) {in animation}, cite(s), close(s), closet(s), coil(s), cost(s), cot(s)

I, ice(s), is, it, its

Lei(s), less, lest {poetic word}, let(s), lice, lie(s), lite {which has become an acceptable version of light}, list(s), lit, lose(s), loss, lost, lot(s)

Oil(s)

Set(s), silo(s), sis {short for sister}, sit(s), site(s), slice(s), slot(s), soil(s), sole

Test(s), tic(s) {nervous habits}, tie(s), tile(s), to, toe(s), toil(s), toss

Whether or not the acronym SOS (International distress signal) and Sol, the formal name for our sun, counts is debatable, but more than the 61 words listed above might be possible.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Upon who is Popeye’s Fried Chicken based?

Many think it’s the famous fictitious sailor, but founder Alvin Copeland named the chain after Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle from The French Connection.