THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 27, 2025

 😎FUN FACT

A Hummingbird’s brain only accounts for an estimated 4.2% of its total body weight.

REBUS

Something familiar is represented in the image below. Do you know what it is?

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS

Who do we know Alicia Augello-Cook better as?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the September 20, 2025 Puzzle Corner.

NUMBER PLEASE

Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.

How many movies did actors Paul Newman and Robert Redford make together?

2/TWO. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969, and 1973’s The Sting. A third was planned but unfortunately never happened due to scheduling logistic conflicts. Yet Newman and Redford remained friends throughout the rest of their respective lives.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Going into the 2025 playoffs, who is the only Major League Baseball⚾ team to have never made it to the World Series?

The Seattle Mariners. Whether or not their luck changes this year remains to be seen.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 20, 2025

 😎FUN FACT

It’s the soap🧼, not the water temperature, that kills germs when washing your hands.

NUMBER PLEASE

Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.

How many movies did actors Paul Newman and Robert Redford make together?

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Going into the 2025 playoffs, who is the only Major League Baseball⚾ team to have never made it to the World Series?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the September 13, 2025 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Since September 18 was Cheeseburger🍔 Day, what exactly is on Jimmy Buffet’s ♫Cheeseburger In Paradise♫?

According to the song (and I played the track on the Songs You Know By Heart CD 3/THREE times to confirm this), Jimmy Buffet was "not too particular, not too precise" but a ♫Cheeseburger in Paradise♫ included an unspecified bun, "a huge hunk of meat" cooked medium rare, onion slice, lettuce, tomatoes, mustard AND Heinz 57 sauce; served with French fried potatoes, a Kosher dill pickle and a cold draft beer.

COMMON BONDS

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

01. {Nuro, Valo} = Light, in other languages. Swahili and Finnish respectively.

02. {Skua, Grebe} = Birds. Skua stay mainly along shorelines while Grebe dive for their food.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: APRIL 3, 2021

😎FUN FACT

Mars is the only planet whose current population is entirely robotic, that we can swear to.

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?

A famous rock group’s bad dreams = ???

THE LETTER SHUFFLE

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

Hint: There’s more than you think.

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the March 27, 2021 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Manufacturers started adding iodine to table salt in 1924. WHY?

As an attempt to reduce the number of people suffering from goiters, which proved successful to continue the practice to this day.

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?

Which team did the most movies together: Robert Redford and Paul Newman or Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau?

It was JACK LEMMON AND WALTER MATTHAU with The Fortune Cookie, The Odd Couple, The Front Page, Buddy Buddy, Grumpy Old Men, Grumpier Old Men, Out to Sea, and The Odd Couple 2. Both also appeared in JFK but had no scenes together. Lemmon directed Matthau in Kotch but never appeared on camera.

Robert Redford and Paul Newman only did 2 memorable films together: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid along with The Sting.