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Saturday, February 9, 2019

THE PUZZLE CORNER: FEBRUARY 9, 2019

😎FUN FACT
At the conclusion of #53, only the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, and Jacksonville Jaguars have yet to play a Super Bowl.

Everyone loves a good romance story. Especially with Valentine’s Day approaching.
All you have to do in our IS YOU IS OR IS YOU AIN’T MY BABY quiz is match the ladies to their beaus. Ready?

THE LADIES
01. Nicole Austin
02. Cleopatra
03. Pam Dawber
04. Dulcinea del Toboso
05. Kathleen Kelly
06. Roxanne Kowalski
07. Paula McFadden
08. Klara Novak
09. Penelope Pussycat
10. Annie Reed
11. Roxanne (no known surname)
12. Kathy Seldon
13. Susan Storm
14. Joanne Woodward

THEIR BEAUS
01. Marc Anthony
02. Sam Baldwin
03. Charles Bales
04. Cyrano de Bergerac
05. Joe Fox
06. Elliot Garfield
07. Mark Harmon
08. Alfred Kralik
09. Don Lockwood
10. Tracy Marrow
11. Paul Newman
12. Pepe Le Pew
13. Alonso Quijano
14. Reed Richards

We’ll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the February 2, 2019 Puzzle Corner.

NUMBER PLEASE
Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.
Everyone knows Sir Isaac Newton formalized the Law of Gravity, but how old was he at the time?
23!

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
With the holiday drawing near, how many new words can you form out of the letters in VALENTINE?
A, alien, alive, an, ant, at, at
Eat, eave, even, evil
I, in, inn, inane, it
Lane, late, Latin, lean, leave, lei, lenient, lent, lie, line, lint, live
Neat, nine, nit
Tan, tea, ten, teen, tile, tin, tine
Veil, vein, vent, vial, vile
More than the 43 listed above might be possible.

Saturday, February 13, 2016

THE PUZZLE CORNER: FEBRUARY 13, 2016

FUN FACT
The human brain is only 2% of your body weight, but uses at least 20% of your energy!

Normally, we would run the IS YOU IS, OR IS YOU AIN'T MY BABY quiz for Valentine's Day, and our FAMOUS FIRSTS: PRESIDENTS quiz the following weekend for Presidents Day here in the United States.
However, both events are occurring with 24 hours of each other this year!
So we've combined the two enigmas.
Below, alphabetically, are ten US Presidents and the maiden names of their first ladies.
Can you match each historic couple accurately?

THE PRESIDENTS
01. John Adams
02. John Quincy Adams
03. William Henry Harrison
04. Thomas Jefferson
05. James Madison
06. James Monroe
07. Franklin Pierce
08. James Polk
09. Zachary Taylor
10. Martin Van Buren

THE LADIES
A. Jane Appleton
B. Sarah Childress
C. Hannah Hoes
D. Louisa Johnson
E. Elizabeth Kortright
F. Abigail Smith
G. Margaret Smith
H. Anna Symes
I. Dolley Todd
J. Martha Wagles

We'll reveal all next weekend, weather permitting.
Now, due to bad weather February 6th, here are the results from our Puzzle Corner of January 30th, 2016.

RHYME TIME
The clue to something specific is below. But no matter how long your answer is, each word within it must rhyme with each other. Ready?

Math class about subtraction.
Lessen lesson.

NEXT?
All you have to do is figure out what the next item in the sequence below should be. Ready?

O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, ?

Next is N, because the sequence is the first letter of the numeric counting sequence One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight...