THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

 😎FUN FACT

Dice have been around for over 5000 years.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Dice is the group name for two or more, but what do you call just one?

FILL IN THE BLANKS

All you have to do is what the title says, literally fill in the blanks to acquire the answer. The given letters are all shown, none of those are missing. Ready?

Person: SHE_ _ _ _ _  H_ _ _ ES.

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the September 14, 2024 Puzzle Corner.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

With the new television season upon us, do you know these classic opening lines from famous television series?

01. "You’re traveling through another dimension." = Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone.

02. "Theorizing that one could time travel within their own lifetime…" The Sam Beckett version of Quantum Leap.

03. "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8." = Laverne and Shirley. The rest of the chant is “Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated,” before the theme song starts.

04. "We travel through time to help history along." = Voyagers!, a good science-fiction series that unfortunately only lasted the 1982-83 TV season.

05. "Space, the final frontier." =  Star Trek, first said during The Original Series and in subsequent programs since.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Since September 18 was Cheeseburger Day, how exactly did Jimmy Buffet like his ♫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.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: MARCH 18, 2023

 😎FUN FACT

Frank Sinatra wanted to record ♫Colour My World♫, but thought the song needed an additional verse. Songwriter James Pankow of Chicago disagreed, so the deal was never made.

WHO AM I?

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

♫All the Downtown Ladies call him Tree Top Lover, all the men just call him Sir.♫

REBUS

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

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the March 11, 2023 Puzzle Corner, and our time traveling quiz.⌚⌛⏰⏳

Were you able to identify the show (title answers in ALL CAPS) from its intro quote?

01. Theorizing that one could time travel within their own lifetime…

Doctor Sam Becket led an elite group of scientists into
the desert to develop a top secret project, known as QUANTUM LEAP. (original series)

02. Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America’s greatest and most secret project… THE TIME TUNNEL.

03. We travel through time to help history along. Give it a push where it’s needed. VOYAGERS

04. Where it’s the same year and you’re the same person, but everything else is different. SLIDERS

05. Takes him back to the place and the people he calls home. QUANTUM LEAP, 2022 REVIVAL.

HAPPY LEAP YEAR DAY! FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Today is February 29th, 2016; the actual day of Leap Year.

The Earth actually needs 365.25 days to make one complete orbit around the sun.
We gather all those .25s and make an extra day with them once every four years to keep the calendars up to date with the rest of the universe.

But that doesn't mean that today is also not without its special moments.

In some cultures, today is also known as Sadie Hawkins Day (originating in Al Capp's classic comic strip Li'l Abner), where it is socially acceptable for a woman to ask a man out on a date, or to propose marriage to them.
Although in Greece, it is considered unlucky to actually have the wedding on a leap year.

Fans of the television show Quantum Leap celebrate their favorite program
today.

Before the milestone event known as the Crisis On Infinite Earths, DC Comics always said that Superman's birthday translated from the old Kryptonian calendar to February 29th on ours.
No word on when it occurs since all the cosmic resets that publisher has had.

So whatever is on your agenda, enjoy your extra day!

HAPPY LEAP YEAR 2012: THE EXTRA DAY

Many wish for extra time in their busy schedules to try and get everything done. But how many actually get it?
Well, once every four years, everyone does.
Today is February 29, 2012; also known as Leap Year.
A true day, or one complete rotation of the Earth upon its axis, is actually about 24 hours and 30 seconds long.
Over time, those seconds accumulate to the point where there are enough to add an extra 24 hour day for the calendar to come out right.
Parents of babies born on February 29 are asked to choose either February 28 or March 1 to record their child's arrival on, since the 29th itself is not a yearly event.
But those lucky enough to be born on February 29th include the late Pope Paul III and Dinah Shore; Mark Foster of the group  Foster the People and the legendary comic book character Superman.

"When am I now?"

Fans of the television program Quantum Leap have chosen February 29 to celebrate the series as they try to figure out where and when time traveler Sam Beckett (image at right) might be at the moment, let alone when someone will hopefully revive the series and actually answer that question once and for all.


Historic events that actually occurred on this date are mixed, but include the debut of The Family Circus comic strip in 1960, the passing of singer/actor Davy Jones (The Monkees, Oliver!) earlier today, hockey great Gordie Howe scoring his 800th career goal in a 1980 game, and The Free Choice E-zine marking it's 800th article with this post!

(Images courtesy of Google)