THE PUZZLE CORNER: AUGUST 5, 2023

 😎FUN FACT

Rocking MTV (Music Television) was later followed by the “milder” VH1 (Video Hits One). Unfortunately neither are doing much with actual music videos today.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

What was the very first music video MTV played upon its debut on August 1, 1981?

SUPER SECONDS🥈

What was the SECOND music video MTV ever played?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the July 29, 2023 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

While the world wonders if we will ever see A Song of Ice and Fire Book 6: The Winds of Winter, name the existing 5 novels in order.

A Game of Thrones (from which the HBO series took its name), A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast of Crows and A Dance with Dragons. Fire and Blood is actually the first half of an unfinished prequel tale.

WHO AM I?

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

Allegedly born in Arizona before relocating to Babylonia.

♫King Tut♫ according to the classic Steve Martin song.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JULY 6, 2013

Another weekend is upon us, and fans of this column know what that means!

REBUS
A familiar phrase is represented by the image below. Do you know what it is?

LOOK LOOK
LOOK LOOK   LEAP

THE FIFTY-FIFTY CHANCE
This is just like a regular Trivia Time question, but there are only two possible answers, hence the even odds of getting it right. Ready?

TRUE OR FALSE: You can NOT have punctuation within the name of a city or town.

We'll reveal all next weekend. Meanwhile, let's peek inside THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from the June 29, 2013 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME
MTV debuted August 1, 1981, with its sister channel VH1 making the scene January 1, 1985. Considering what they used to show, do you remember what the acronyms for each station mean?
MTV once stood for Music TeleVision, while VH1 was Video Hits 1; but how often do those stations play music videos nowadays?

FAMOUS FIRSTS
Do you remember just what the very first music videos were for each channel?
MTV's first music video was appropriately enough Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles, while VH1 started their broadcast history with Marvin Gaye's rendition of The Star Spangled Banner.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JUNE 29, 2013

It's the weekend, but that doesn't mean our minds should take a break.
Ready for some mental exercising?

TRIVIA TIME
MTV debuted August 1, 1981, with its sister channel VH1 making the scene January 1, 1985. Considering what they used to show, do you remember what the acronyms for each station mean?

FAMOUS FIRSTS
Do you remember just what the very first music videos were for each channel?

We'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let's peek inside THE ANSWERS BOX, and discover the results from the June 22, 2013 Puzzle Corner, where we celebrated a couple of major events that had occurred.

REBUS

This attempt at using Microsoft Paint was in honor of the SUPER MOON between June 22-23, when the  (full) moon was the closest it would be to the Earth for the year.






THE LETTER SHUFFLE
Last week also marked the official start of the 2013 Summer season, and out of the letters in the word SUMMER, you should have been able to answer the following questions.

01. Total? = SUM
02. Inspiration? = MUSE
03. Flowers? = MUMS
04. Trick? = RUSE