THE PUZZLE CORNER: JANUARY 18, 2025

 😎FUN FACT

The very first newspaper was the Roman Acta Diurna (Daily Acts), originated in 59BCE.

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?

Angry drivers against artificial intelligence.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

What famous duo originally called themselves “Tom and Jerry,” before settling on their more famous career names?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the January 11, 2025 Puzzle Corner.

NUMBER PLEASE

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

Out of the original Twilight Zone, how many episodes did series creator Rod Serling write?

92 out of the 156 produced for the show’s five classic seasons from 1959-1964

TRIVIA TIME⌚

How did Orville and Wilbur Wright decide who would make the historic airplane test flight at Kitty Hawk?

They flipped a coin! Winning, Orville was the pilot.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JANUARY 11, 2025

 😎FUN FACT

The Python Computer Language was named after Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

NUMBER PLEASE

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

Out of the original Twilight Zone, how many episodes did series creator Rod Serling write?

TRIVIA TIME⌚

How did Orville and Wilbur Wright decide who would make the historic airplane test flight at Kitty Hawk?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the January 4, 2025 Puzzle Corner.

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) = Angus, only mentioned once during Anderson’s series. Acknowledged early but seldom used during the Till revival.

02. “Punky” Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye) = Penelope, but preferred “Punky” because she hated her given/birth name.

03. Deputy Marshall McCloud (Dennis Weaver) = Sam. Mentioned irregularly, even by the title character.

04. Lieutenant Columbo (Peter Falk) = Frank. Never said aloud. Only seen rarely whenever the character had to show his ID.

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.

FALSE! From the original movie, Kier Dullea reprised the role of Astronaut Dave Bowman while Douglas Rain once again voiced the reactivated HAL 9000 in 2010.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: OCTOBER 5, 2024

 😎FUN FACT

A Macaw’s feather color pattern is as unique to each bird as fingerprints are to a human.

RHYME TIME⏰

The clue to something is below, but no matter how long your answer is, each word within it must rhyme. Ready?

Equal parts.

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?

Dr. Mark Sloan meets Jessica Fletcher.

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

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

October 2 marked the 65th anniversary of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Considering how popular it is in syndication, what was the very first episode ever aired?

“Where Is Everybody?”

Written by Serling himself, about a man who wakes up alone near a small town.

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS

Who do we know Marion Morrison better as?

Famous actor John Wayne.

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: JUNE 11, 2022

😎FUN FACT

The British Broadcasting Company is celebrating 100 years of service this year, based upon when they started radio programming back in 1922.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

On the BBC series Keeping Up Appearances, what was the maiden name of sisters Hyacinth, Violet, Rose, and Daisy?

RHYME TIME⏰

The clue to something is below, but no matter how long your answer is, each word within it must rhyme. Ready?

What we all need in life.

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the June 4, 2022 Puzzle Corner.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

Who could technically be considered the first host of The Twilight Zone?

Hint: It WASN’T Rod Serling!

Desi Arnaz because what many consider the pilot script, “The Time Element,” was produced as an episode of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.

COMMON BONDS

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

01. {oven, treat} = Dutch

02. {area, zip} = code

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JUNE 4, 2022

😎FUN FACT

While many think the season begins on Memorial Day weekend, Summer officially doesn’t start until June 21!

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

Who could technically be considered the first host of The Twilight Zone?

Hint: It WASN’T Rod Serling!

COMMON BONDS

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

01. {oven, treat}

02. {area, zip}

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the May 28, 2022 Puzzle Corner.

REBUS

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

BRIDGE

WATER

Water under the bridge.

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?

YES or NO: Is there anywhere that the sun rises in the WEST and sets in the EAST?

YES! The Planet Venus. We never restricted the question to just Earth. 😉