Showing posts with label Wally Cox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wally Cox. Show all posts

Saturday, July 13, 2019

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JULY 13, 2019

😎FUN FACT
Out of the water, a group of penguins🐧is called a waddle, presumably based upon the way they walk.

NUMBER PLEASE
Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.
What was the first number retired in Major League Baseball⚾ history?

TRIVIA TIME⌚
What is a pangram?

We’ll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the July 6, 2019 Puzzle Corner.

COMMON BONDS
The items in each subset below have something in common. Do you know what it is?
01. {Wally Cox, Adam West} and we are not going for the obvious.
The obvious would be actors who have played superheroes, Underdog and Batman, respectively. But the answer we were going for is both guest starred in an episode of Alias Smith and Jones entitled “The Men Who Corrupted Hadleyburg”, even sharing a scene together, making that the closest the world will ever come to an Underdog-Batman team up outside of a comic book.
02. {Glen, Neve} = the surname Campbell.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇
What is the biggest (as of June 2019) one hit wonder of all time?
It’s actually a tie between Survivor’s ♫Eye of the Tiger♫ and ♫Somebody That I Used To Know♫ by Goyte, featuring Kimbra. Both songs have achieved Platinum status EIGHT TIMES so far.

Saturday, July 6, 2019

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JULY 6, 2019

😎FUN FACT
When the colorizing old black and white movies fad began, there was an uproar over not only the process in general, but the possibility of the Kansas framing sequences to MGM’s The Wizard of Oz being redone. Thankfully common sense and history prevailed.

COMMON BONDS
The items in each subset below have something in common. Do you know what it is?
01. {Wally Cox, Adam West} and we are not going for the obvious.
02. {Glen, Neve}

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇
What is the biggest (as of June 2019) one hit wonder of all time?

We’ll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the June 29, 2019 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚
What is heavy going forward, but not backwards?
TON (not backwards)

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?
Superman’s favorite flower?
Man of Steel Magnolias.