THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

 😎FUN FACT

🐈Cats🐈 are capable of making almost 300 facial gestures to express their feelings.

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."

02. "Theorizing that one could time travel within their own lifetime..."

03. "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8."

04. "We travel through time to help history along."

05. "Space, the final frontier." 

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Since September 18 is Cheeseburger Day, how exactly did Jimmy Buffet like his ♫Cheeseburger In Paradise♫?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the September 7, 2024 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Two members of the Star Trek: Voyager cast had cameos in the Star Trek (The Next Generation) movie First Contact. Who were they?

Robert Picardo was obvious as the ship’s holographic Emergency Medical System Doctor, but Ethan Phillips was unrecognizable without his Nelix makeup as a nightclub maitre’d.

NUMBER PLEASE

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

How many eggs🥚🥚🥚 do you need to fill an empty egg container?

1, because although the average egg container holds a dozen (12) eggs, once you put one in, it’s no longer empty.

“Logical.”—Any Vulcan.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

 😎FUN FACT

September 8 is Star Trek Day. Among NBC’s complaints when they rejected “The Cage”, the show's original pilot, the network told series creator Gene Roddenberry to “Get rid of the guy with the pointy ears.” (Mister Spock)

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Two members of the Star Trek: Voyager cast had cameos in the Star Trek (The Next Generation) movie First Contact. Who were they?

NUMBER PLEASE

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

How many eggs🥚🥚🥚 do you need to fill an empty egg container?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from the August 31, 2024 Puzzle Corner.

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?

Team up between the Dark Knight and Mork.

Batman and Robin Williams.

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS

Rupert Holmes’ ♫Escape♫ became better known under what title?

♫The Pina Colada Song♫

THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Believe it or not, today marks the 46th anniversary of the launch of the U.S.S. Enterprise on the original Star Trek television series.
AND this year also marks the 25th anniversary of the first sequel: Star Trek: The Next Generation.
So let's boldly go where no Puzzle Corner has gone before with this brief quiz.

01. Believe it or not, there WAS a Star Trek series between the two named above. What was it?
02. What NEW characters were introduced on it that could not be done on the original series?
03. Who was the first Star Trek performer to write an episode of their series?
04. Who was the first cast member of the Original Series to appear on the Next Generation?
05. What was the first Star Trek series to win an Emmy?
06. While unfortunately we have lost a few cast members over the years, who was the first character to die ON SCREEN?

We'll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let's open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results of our Neil Armstrong Puzzle Corner tribute from September 1st.

THE FIFTY-FIFTY CHANCE
Neil Armstrong's LEFT foot was the first to touch the lunar surface.

TRIVIA TIME
Neil Armstrong always offered to come out of retirement to participate in a manned mission to Mars. Maybe someday there actually will be one.