THE PUZZLE CORNER: MARCH 3, 2018

😎FUN FACT
Pollex is another name for thumb.

With this being a big awards weekend for filmdom, let’s play some movie games, shall we?

FAMOUS FIRSTS
What was the first movie IN COLOR to win the Oscar for Best Picture?

TRIVIA TIME
While awards categories can alternate at times, what was the last regular category added to the Razzies, celebrating the worst in movies?

We’ll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from the February 24, 2018 Puzzle Corner.

BEFORE AND AFTER
Two separate items have at least one word in common, and so can be combined to form something new. Based upon the clue below, do you know what the new thing is?

A Hanna-Barbera cartoon character’s media company?
Quick Draw McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.

FAMOUS FIRSTS
What was the first television program to accurately predict the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?
Believe it or not: it was Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In!

THE PUZZLE CORNER: FEBRUARY 21, 2015

FUN FACT
Silent movies have not been honored in an Oscar ceremony since the very first awards presentation, when an Oscar for Best Title Writing was available.

Pull up a chair. Break out the popcorn and your other favorite movie snacks.
Tonight the 35th annual Razzie Awards will be presented for the worst in movies, while tomorrow night the 87th annual Oscars will be presented for the best in motion pictures.
Obviously, we have a quiz celebrating both, so read the questions carefully before answering. Ready?

01. The Razzies are known by what more formal name?
02. What film won the very first Best Motion Picture Oscar?
03. What movie "won" the very first Worst Motion Picture Razzie?
04. What movie won the Best Motion Picture Oscar last year?
05. What were the first new Razzie categories to be added to the original program?
06. What Oscar is technically still available, but hasn't been awarded since 1984?
07. What Razzies were added to the program in 1994?
08. While unfortunately the Razzies don't get much TV coverage, what year was the first Oscar telecast?
09. Who has "won" the most Razzies (to date)?
10. What movie has received the most Oscar nominations (to date)?

We'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let's open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results of the February 14th, 2015 Puzzle Corner.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
To celebrate February 14th, how many new words can you make out of VALENTINE?

A, alien, alive, an, ant, at, ate

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.

PRESIDENTIAL FAMOUS FIRST QUIZ
February 16th was Presidents Day here in the United States.
Did you know who was the first President...

01. To physically live in the White House?
This is a trick question. Technically, John Adams and his family might be the first, since they were there during construction, but officially Thomas Jefferson was the first to occupy the structure during his entire administration.
02. To work in the Oval Office? (The West Wing, where it resides, was a later addition to the structure.) William Howard Taft
03. To marry while in office? Grover Cleveland. He was single when elected.
04. To remarry while in office? John Tyler, for his first wife died during his administration.
05. To see their child actually born in the White House? We're back to Grover Cleveland, who welcomed his daughter Esther into the world during his second term.