Q: Take the name of an island. Move its first letter two spaces later in the alphabet (so A would become C, B would become D, etc.). Reverse the result and you'll have the name of another island. What islands are these?Regulars to this blog have an advantage. While I submitted this awhile ago and don't remember hearing back, I guess it got added to the queue of puzzles. Well, I can't change yesterday, but we can change tomorrow! I say we "keep calm and carry on".
Q: Name a famous living movie star. Insert an R in the middle of the first name, and drop the last two letters of the last name. You'll get a familiar French phrase. What is it?Déjà vu, for the third time
A: CATE BLANCHETT --> CARTE BLANCHE
Q: The initial letters in the title of a popular movie from this century spell the name of a popular sitcom from the last century. What titles are these?I'm not going to lie but I thought there might be a link to Mother's Day... there is, but I'm not happy with it.
A: Snakes on a Plane (2006) --> SOAP (1977-1981)
Q: This week's challenge is more challenging than last week's. Write down the name of a number. Move each letter four spots later in the alphabet — so A would become E, B would become F, etc. The result will be a number that's 44 more than your first one. What numbers are these?More challenging? That's debateable. This is basically a Caesar cipher, except shifting by 4 letters.
A: THREE --> XLVII (47)
Q: Name a sound made by a certain animal. Change one letter in it to the next letter in the alphabet and you'll get a color associated with that animal. What's the sound, and what's the color?Don't get stuck on this puzzle -- I spent more time transcribing the puzzle than I did answering it.
A: OINK --> PINK
Q: Name a vehicle in two words — 4 letters in the first, 5 letters in the last. Move the second letter of the last word into the second position of the first word. The result phonetically will name a popular figure from legend. Who is it?Is it the Skipper from Gilligan's Island?
A: FIRE TRUCK --> FRIAR TUCK
Q: Think of a 5-letter word with an "L" that is pronounced. Add a letter at the start to get a 6-letter word in which the "L" is silent. Then add a new letter in the fifth position to get a 7-letter word in which the "L" is pronounced again. What words are these?Are we back to the ARSON --> ASH puzzle?
A: OLDER --> SOLDER --> SOLDIER
Q: Name two well-known celebrities of the past who had the same six-letter first names and the same initial in their last names. What follows that initial in one of the last names is a criminal activity. And what follows that initial in the other name is the result of that criminal activity. What celebrities are these?The first celebrity I had in mind wasn't that far off, but as a result it took me quite a while to get there in the end.
A: JOHNNY CARSON, JOHNNY CASH --> ARSON, ASH
Q: Name a state that contains all five vowels — A, E, I, O, and U — once each.I went from thinking this would be easy, to impossible and finally...
A: A state of EUPHORIA (Other accepted answers included Mozambique, the Republic of Chad, and different states of being — such as anxiousness, exhaustion, pandemonium, and perturbation.)
Q: If a BOY is 5,839, and a COW is 6,874, how much is a FISH?And what is 538,716?
A: Using the single-letter elements in the periodic table, FISH = Fluorine(9), Iodine(53), Sulfur(16), Hydrogen(1) --> FISH = 953,161
