THE PUZZLE CORNER: OCTOBER 2, 2021

😎FUN FACT

Thomas Alva Edison holds the record for the most patents granted to an individual at 1,093!

TRIVIA TIME⌚

The original Star Trek is accredited with foreseeing what we know today as personal computers and cellphones, among other things. What series foresaw online classes and the video call, among other things?

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 September 25, 2021 Puzzle Corner.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

October 1 marked the 30th anniversary of the FOR DUMMIES series of books.

What was the first title published?

DOS For Dummies.

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?

TRUE or FALSE: Actor Michael Dunn as Doctor Miguleito Quixote Loveless was the only recurring villain on the classic television series The Wild, Wild West (1965-1969).

FALSE! While Doctor Loveless was the most (in)famous villain with ten appearances, Victor Buono appeared twice as Count Carlos Mario Vincenzo Robespierre Manzeppi, a “dark” magician and criminal team leader.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

😎FUN FACT

Fingernails grow faster than toe nails, but no one knows why.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

October 1 marks the 30th anniversary of the FOR DUMMIES series of books.

What was the first title published?

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?

TRUE or FALSE: Actor Michael Dunn as Doctor Miguleito Quixote Loveless was the only recurring villain on the classic television series The Wild Wild West (1965-1969).

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the September 18, 2021 Puzzle Corner.

NUMBER PLEASE

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

As of February 2021, how many M&Ms are in the official world’s tallest stack of said candy?

5. After all, considering their unique shape…

COMMON BONDS

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

01. {Teams, Hobby} = Clubs.♣♣

02. {Artichokes, Valentines} = Hearts.💟💟

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JANUARY 6, 2018

😎FUN FACT
Welcome to the first Puzzle Corner of 2018!

COMMON BONDS
The items in each subset have something in common.
Do you know what it is?
01. {Doonesbury, Stone Soup, Fox Trot} and yes, we know they are all comic strips.
02. {catch, save}

AKA: Also Known As
What building material is technically baked earth?

We’ll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from the December 29, 2017 Puzzle Corner.

To end 2017, we had a quiz about unique television episode titles, where all you have to do was identify the series, based upon the clue below.

01. While never shown onscreen, the first two seasons of this police procedural always featured field reports from “Log #—”, before switching to regular titles for the remainder of the series.
Adam-12.
02. As they appeared onscreen, each episode of this series was about “The Night of—”, although a lot of the adventures took place during the day too.
The Wild, Wild West.
03. While never shown onscreen, the episode titles during Seasons 13-17 of this series had the same number of characters as their respective season, not counting punctuation and spaces between words.
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
04. As presented onscreen, each episode of this series was about “The (fill-in-the-blank) Affair”.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
05. Although never presented onscreen, each episode title of this series began “The One—”.
Friends.