THE PUZZLE CORNER: JULY 17, 2021

😎FUN FACT

Owls🦉🦉 can greatly rotate their heads, but they can’t move their eyes at all!

THE LETTER SHUFFLE

Add one letter to a Marvel Comics hero to spell the name of a DC Comics heroine.

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: There is rust on the moon.🌔

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the July 10, 2021 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

On The Rockford Files, what was Jim Rockford’s middle name?

Scott, giving actor James Scott Garner the same first and middle names as his character.

NUMBER PLEASE

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

In Walt Disney’s version of Snow White, how many of the dwarfs had facial hair?

6. Dopey was both clean shaven and bald.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JULY 10, 2021

😎FUN FACT

It costs the United States 6.2 cents to make a dollar bill, about 11 cents for everything between the $5-$50, and 14 cents for the $100.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

On The Rockford Files, what was Jim Rockford’s middle name?

NUMBER PLEASE

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

In Walt Disney’s version of Snow White, how many of the dwarfs had facial hair?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the July 3, 2021 Puzzle Corner.

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS

What member of the United States’ 13 colonies was originally known as New Amsterdam?

New York.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE

How many new words can you form from the letters in INDEPENDENCE?

Cede

Deed, deep, den, depend, dice, diced, die, died, dine, dined

End, ended

I, ice, in, inn

Nee, need, needed, nice, niece

Pen, pend, pin, pine, pined

More than the 27 listed above might be possible.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: MARCH 7, 2020

😎FUN FACT
At -40 degrees Fahrenheit, Yakutsk, Russia is the coldest inhabited city in the world!

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇
Who was the first WOMAN to walk in outer space?

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?
Cheesy whiskey?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the February 29, 2020 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚
What is a gowpen?
The formal term for the hollow area created when you cup your hands.

COMMON BONDS
The items in each subset below have something in common. Do you know what it is?
01. {Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Steve Jobs} = NONE of them had a college degree!
02. {“I know,” “You Know,” (and) “Don’t Know.”} = Were the names of dogs author Mark Twain owned!

THE PUZZLE CORNER: MAY 12, 2018

😎FUN FACT
The Disney Studios prefer to honor Mickey and Minnie Mouse’s Steamboat Willie as their first cartoon, since it was also the first one ever produced with a soundtrack. However Plane Crazy technically debuted first, but Disney now considers it the fourth, after adding a soundtrack.

NUMBER PLEASE>NEW GAME!
Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.
In the classic Disney movie, how many of Snow White’s seven dwarfs (if any) were clean shaven?

TRIVIA TIME⌚
May 15 is technically the 90th anniversary🎂 of Mickey and Minnie Mouse’s debut in Plane Crazy, but what is Minnie’s actual first name?

We’ll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX 📦 and discover the results from the May 5, 2018 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚
Exactly where does German Chocolate Cake🎂 come from?
It was actually invented by an American named Samuel German.

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: The Baby Ruth candy bar🍫 is named after baseball great Babe Ruth.
ANSWER: False, or so the company claimed, saying they were named after then President Grover Cleveland's daughter Ruth. Because of this, Babe Ruth lost his lawsuit against the manufacturer.