Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Nuts To You


Q:

Using these letters in order:

T, H, N, C, L

Add four of the five vowels in the proper places to come up with an advertising slogan popular in the seventies.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

21st Century Quibbling Man


Q:

The phrase "niggling goons" is replete with letters that repeat.  Drop two identical letters and rearrange the result to get two new verb phrases that are synonymous.  Millions of people worldwide repeat this action every day.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Look You Leap


Q:

Here we have a very eclectic group of song titles in prepositional code:

     2call          itititu          so ble          losove          twoone          it time it

Followed by a list of various musical artists who have performed these songs:

   K.D. Lang   Jack White   Barcelona   Little Milton   Gingersol   Rick Nelson

Can you decipher the song titles and then match them to the performers?  Of course you can.     


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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Color Me Starstruck


Q:

Preface  -  The alphabet is a pool of letters from which all words can be spelled.

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Cerulean and cobalt are both shades of blue.Using each color as your pool of letters, you can pull out the first and last names of a well-known couple.  Each color represents one of the pair. Who are they?  Using each as a pool of letters, from cerulean we can get Lauren and from cobalt we can get Bacall

Consider these:

Lilac green                                                 Robin's egg blue

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Using each color as your pool of letters, you can pull out the first and last names of a well-known couple.  Each color represents one of the pair. Who are they?

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