THE PUZZLE CORNER: JANUARY 4, 2024

 😎FUN FACT

At least half of all New Year’s Resolutions get abandoned by the second Friday of January.

FAMOUS FIRST NAMES

Some famous television characters are only known by one name, yet do have a rarely mentioned first name. Can you say what the first name of each one listed below is? To help, we’ve listed the actor/actress involved.

01. MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson or Lucas Till)

02. “Punky” Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye)

03. Deputy Marshall McCloud (Dennis Weaver)

04. Lieutenant Columbo (Peter Falk)

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: Being made decades apart, Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 epic 2001: A Space Odyssey and the 1984 sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact featured totally different casts.

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the December 28, 2024 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

A small group of Christmas specials have aired on commercial television every year since their respective debuts. Can you name them? HINT: They all debuted in the 1960s.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer🦌 since 1964, Doctor Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas since 1966 and Frosty The Snowman⛄ since 1969.

A Charlie Brown Christmas🎄 was in contention from 1965-2021 before the entire Peanuts video library went exclusively to Apple+.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE

How many new words can you make out of the letters in NEW YEAR?

A, an, any, are, aye

Ear, earn, ewe, eye

Nay, nee, near

Ran, raw, ray, renew

War, ware, warn, way, wean, wear, weary, were, wren

Yarn, yaw, yawn, yea, yearn

New and Year don’t count because they were part of the original phrase. Other words than the 30 listed above might be possible.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JANUARY 11, 2014

Depending upon where you are right now, it's a pretty dreary weekend weather-wise, so let's try to cheer things up with some enigmas.

COMMON BONDS
The items in each subset have something in common.
Do you know what it is?
01. {B. J. Thomas, Gene Kelly}
02. {The Beatles, Katrina and the Waves}

TRIVIA TIME
On the classic western series The Virginian, what was the full name of James Drury's title character?

We'll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let's open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from our Famous Firsts quiz that celebrated the first Puzzle Corner of 2014.

The first names of all our contestants are:
01. Mr. Magoo (voiced by Jim Backus): QUINCY
02. MacGyver (played by Richard Dean Anderson): ANGUS
03. Robert B. Parker's Spenser: NEVER REVEALED!
04. Doctor Mallard from NCIS (David McCallum): DONALD
05. The Fonz (Henry Winkler on Happy Days): ARTHUR Fonzerelli
06. Quincy, M.E. (Jack Klugman): NEVER REVEALED, but it was confirmed on the show that his first name did start with an R!
07. Columbo (Peter Falk): Officially, NEVER REVEALED, but whenever his LAPD ID was shown, a freeze frame shows his first name was Frank.
08. McCloud (Dennis Weaver): Sam
09. McMillian... (Rock Hudson): STEWART. Most people on the show referred to him as either "Mac" or his formal position as a Police Commissioner.
10. ...and Wife (Susan Saint James): Sally

01)Mister Magoo

02

04)Dr. "Ducky" Mallard

05)The Fonz

06)Quincy, Medical Examiner

07)Columbo

08)McCloud

09 and 10

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JANUARY 4, 2014

Welcome one and all to the first Puzzle Corner of 2014!

To kick off the New Year right, we are going to do a special edition of FAMOUS FIRSTS!

All you have to do is give us the first names of the people listed below.

Ready?

02. MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson)

01. Mr. Magoo (voiced by Jim Backus)

03. Robert B. Parker's Spenser

04. "Ducky" (David Mcallum on NCIS)

05. "The Fonz" (Henry Winkler on Happy Days)

06. Quincy, M. E. (Jack Klugman)

07. Columbo (Peter Falk)

08. McCloud (Dennis Weaver)

09. and 10

09. Mc Millan (Rock Hudson)
10. And his wife (Susan Saint James)

We'll reveal all next weekend, but for now let's open THE ANSWERS BOX and see how well you did on our 2013 Year's End Quiz.

01. We lost this actor, who was nominated EIGHT times for an Oscar, but never once won! He was given an honorary Oscar before his passing. Who was this person? Peter O'Toole
02. The next time Hanukkah and Thanksgiving will occur within the same 24 hour period is not until what year? 2070, since Hanukkah begins at sundown the night before. The 79811 is for an EXACT overlapping of the holidays, unless the Jewish calendar is revised.
03. Author Tom Clancy passed away this year. Can you name his last book, published posthumously? Command Authority
04. What accomplishment can trumpeter Derek Watkins claim that no one else can? He played on EVERY James Bond movie soundtrack from "Doctor No" to "Skyfall", although we're not sure if that includes the 1960's version of "Casino Royale" and the canon questionable "Never Say Never Again".
05. Who won the 2013 World Series? The Boston Red Sox
06. Who won the 2013 Super Bowl? The Baltimore Ravens
07. What makes the annual Tournament of Roses Parade so unique? Every float is 100% decorated in organic materials.
08. What famous science fiction series celebrated its 50th anniversary this year? Doctor Who
09. 2013 is allegedly the year the X-men have to worry about mutant hunting Sentinels taking over the world in the acclaimed "Days of Future Past" story line that is being made into a movie. But when was this comic book tale first published? 1980
10. Who did Time magazine name their 2013 Person of the Year? Pope Francis