You can drop all instances of that letter and you still get the same answer.Q: Name a famous TV personality of the past. Drop the second letter of this person's last name. Phonetically the first and last names together will sound like a creature of the past. What celebrity is it?
A: DINAH SHORE --> DINOSAUR
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Well, bust my buttons! That was easy!
ReplyDeleteThere's an obvious clue, but is it better left unsaid or should I just blurt it out?
ReplyDeleteIt's already easy enough. No need to add any more giveaway clues.
DeleteAnother Long Islander here. Will used one of my puzzles, but I haven't yet received "the call." LGM, and maybe the White Sox will beat their ignominious record set in 1962.
DeleteLGM!
DeleteNot to toot my own horn, but I solved that one as quickly as Jan and I’m pretty sure it’s the intended answer.
ReplyDeleteWas Marlon Brando ever on TV
ReplyDeleteThe answer letters anagram to an African nationality.
ReplyDeleteNice, Nodd.
DeleteOr, anagram the the name of the past TV personality to name what you might see in the den of a safari hunter.
LegoWhoObservesThatOneMightObserveADanielInTheDenOfALion
Take a block of four letters out of the personality’s name. Rearrange. You get a word meaning money.
ReplyDeleteGood job, metsma, with a tough on-air puzzle. I was not surprised by the 440 for Eli Lilly. This week's number should easily be back to four digits. (No clues here, but I do love Nodd's comment.)
ReplyDeleteIt was so much fun!
DeleteCongrats again, metsma! You did great!
DeleteYou did an exemplary job, metsma. Congratulatons on rising to the challenge to what Lancek aptly named a "tough on-air puzzle."
DeleteLegolalia
There were 5 other ones I got without help that they edited out. So much fun!!!!!
DeleteThe website isn't letting me make my submission, on 2 web browsers.
ReplyDeleteI had to go through a Captcha, but it did finally work (on Chrome). The link is always at the bottom of the post here, if you're having problems with the one at NPR.
DeleteThanks! I never have had a Captcha with Chrome (my regular browser), then tried Firefox, had the Captcha, but still no dice... Will try later.
DeleteI'm using Chrome and tried to submit numerous times. I got the Captcha eventually, but my submission still didn't go through. I had no better luck using the link at the bottom of the page.
DeleteI had to go to the main puzzle page and get to the generic "submit your answer link" there for it to work this round. Using Firefox but addons/blockers may be the source of your troubles
DeleteI don't think so. I've submitted for years with the same browser features. It finally went through this afternoon.
DeleteMusical clue: Banjo
ReplyDeleteCongrats, metsma! Good job on a not-so-easy on-air puzzle.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the name they were born with. And they didn't acquire it for the reason you'd guess.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that too. I thought perhaps they got their name for reasons related to the puzzle but apparently not. It’s always interesting to read up and learn about famous people.
DeleteCongratulations metsma! Now that I know you’re from Long Island, your name makes more sense to me, a former resident (1957-69) of New Hyde Park, who remembers the Pre-Shea days, when they played at the old Polo Grounds.
ReplyDeleteIs there anywhere else in the U.S. that an on air contestant can say (or has said) they are from, without it referencing a state, city, county, etc and we’ll know where it is?
DeleteCape Cod?
DeleteSilicon Valley?
Probably a lot!
Let's Go Mets!
DeleteSpeaking of Shea, two relevant pavilions at the 1964 World's Fair were in close proximity.
DeleteAnd, while we're on the subject, the personality once introduced Tennessee Ernie Ford using a different name.
I'm also an ex-Long Islander who attended a Mets game at the Polo Grounds as a kid. Metsma, is your medical model training by any chance associated with my alma mater, Stony Brook?
DeleteI did that work at Stony Brook and now I am at NYU Long Island School of Medicine.
DeleteEasy enough. Looks like there is a pronunciation problem, but there is none.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought also but the sounds match.
DeletePainfully easy this week.
ReplyDeleteInteresting connection to the on-air puzzle today.
ReplyDeleteHappy September everyone!
Surely an easy puzzle, hard to give a non-obvious clue
ReplyDeleteHere is a slightly-edited similar (and much less elegant) puzzle involving a personality that appeared on Puzzleria! earlier this year:
ReplyDeleteDonkey's Odie Slice:
Jimmy a door, adore a Jenny
The donkey is a symbol of the Democratic Party. Jimmy Carter is a member of the Democratic Party who was elected president in 1976.
“Jimmy” sounds a bit like “jenny,” a female donkey. One might say that, in 1976, Carter was “Jenny’s Jimmy” or the “Donkey’s Jimmy.” Alas, there is no famous personality whose name sounds like “Donkey’s Jimmy...” (although if his name were "Odie Carter" we might have called him the "Donkey's Odie," which sounds a bit like "Don Quixote"...)
So, anyway, name a famous past personality whose name sounds like a symbol of a well-known political party, in its possessive form, and the first name of a past candidate of that political party.
LegoRecyclerOfHisPast"Mystifiers"
Ha!
DeleteEasy, but fun and funny.
I've been on the road most of the day, after going to a wedding in another state last night. I streamed the audio of the on-air broadcast, then packed up and started driving. I had it in my head that we were looking for a "monster" of the past, not a "creature," so I've been down what I think is the wrong rabbit hole most of the day.
DeleteI got this Lego side quest puzzle right away. Now I need to think of the right TV personality to get the main puzzle...
And now I have the answer.
DeleteFun Puzzle! Great way to end a Summer beach weekend!
ReplyDeleteMy hint was --> "beach" ---> (Dinah) Shore
DeleteI don't find the t.v. personality too interesting, so I'm learning about the "creature of the past." I love the speed with which I got this one.
ReplyDeleteThe creature liked to leap around a lot.
ReplyDeleteDinah Shore was born on Leap Day, February 29, 1916.
DeleteHmmmmmmm.
ReplyDeleteI see a flaw in the puzzle. And it has nothing to do with pronunciation.
Anybody else see one? I think Word Woman might be most likely to have the same worry I have.
Crito, yes indeed.
DeleteWill's speech is improving, but when I heard him say "creature of the past," I mistook it for "preacher of the past." "Creature" makes a lot more sense.
ReplyDeleteHere's a bit of trivia about Colgate toothpaste: It was sold in glass jars since 1873. Tubes, as pioneered by Kalodont, Johnson & Johnson (Zonweiss) and Sheffield, were introduced in 1896.
ReplyDeleteRoy Rogers did not name his horse Sambo Trigger, so that can't be it.
ReplyDeleteGee, I actually find this comment amusing.
DeleteBecause the tiggers (or tigers) of the Sambo tale are truly "of the past", having turned themselves to g(h)ee.
DeleteRoute 66
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of celebrities, there's a movie star who could tell you the answer to this puzzle without dropping ANY letters.
ReplyDeleteSean Connery would shay the shelebrity and the creature the shame way.
DeleteOnce I gave up using lists of past TV personalities the name of this person just popped into my head like a car horn!
ReplyDeleteStarliner wasn't the first Boeing spacecraft to flop.
ReplyDeleteThe reason I thought of this after I gave up on the lists of personalities was because, when I was kid, it was how I'd play around with the celebritie's name.
ReplyDeleteI got the answer as I was having breakfast in the kitchen this morning.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it would be TMI/ none of my business if I asked were you having breakfast alone there? hmmm?
DeleteAso TMI to mention what else I was doing
DeleteThe only thing that's not easy about this puzzle is finding how to submit your answer. I clicked on it here because the NPR Homepage hadn't been updated, and all I got was a transcript of the broadcast. So I've heard it, but I can't send in the answer. What should I do?
ReplyDeletepjbIs"BummedOutInBama"
Cranberry, Just go to last week's puzzle site or any week and click the submit button. That is what I did and have done in the past. I got a response from NRP as I usually do.
ReplyDeleteThis may be a generational thing, but I'll admit I had to work backward from the "creature" because I only know this person from a song popular in the '90s!
ReplyDeleteWas the song by Adam Sandler?
DeleteName Dropper!
DeleteAdam Sandler is right! "David Lee Roth lights the menorah / So do James Caan, Kirk Douglas, and the late Dinah Shore-ah...."
DeleteHate the ones I get before I finish reading them. Now, last week's I didn't get at all because I never would have thought of that person as a famous American or whatever.
ReplyDeleteGreat job, metsma. And nice to know the etymology of your name -- I think Mr. Met is the best mascot in all of sports.
ReplyDeleteAs for the new puzzle, nothing from me. I'm away for the Labor Day Weekend! Cheers!
It takes one to know one, which is why I got this answer so quickly.
ReplyDeleteThe TV personality who had a connection to automobiles also had a connection to an entertainer who had a well known connection
ReplyDeleteto lorries.
Only 63 comments by Tuesday? I think this puzzle favors those who are more mature. The person is pretty obscure, otherwise.
ReplyDeleteI'd say mature, but not all that obscure. This person had sufficient fame in another field to merit a larger-than-life bronze statue. There is also a special connection to a segment of the population that continues to this day.
DeleteMaturity is a highly overvalued concept. I may be a septuagenarian's, but I relish behaving childishly. I ride motorcycles, have wife born when I was in my teens, and refuse to, “Age gracefully.”
ReplyDeleteSorry about the typos…..
DeleteThis tv personality was not without controversy. Not only for having a well publicised affair with someone much younger, but also in relation to birth.
ReplyDeleteFamous TV personality has something in common with a famous stage character, 60 years apart.
ReplyDeleteClue was that Dinah Shore was born on Leap Day, as was Frederick of The Pirates of Penzance.
DeleteI've tried three times, and each time I speak the person's name into Google, it comes out with the creature's name instead. And I don't even have a lisp.
ReplyDeleteWhoever thought of putting the s in lisp was cruel.
DeleteYeth, I agree.
DeleteI definitely recall seeing the TV personality in a promotional spot for a sitcom featuring animatronic creatures back in the 90's, but I was unable to find a clip of it online.
ReplyDeleteGuess what we called the personality when I was a youngster.
DeleteDINAH SHORE, DINOSAUR
ReplyDelete"There's an interesting connection to the on-air puzzle today." DINAH SHORE'S given name was Frances "Fanny" Rose Shore. The on-air player is named Franny (aka metsma--congrats, btw!).
"Route 66" The non-avian dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene time boundary. Crito alluded to the fact that avian dinosaurs are still extant as birds. The Dinosauria clade does include these winged dinosaurs.
DINAH SHORE (-H—> DINOSAUR)
ReplyDeleteHint: “Well, bust my buttons! That was easy!”
The best-selling single of Dinah Shore’s long and successful recording career was “BUTTONS and Bows,” which was #1 for a total of 10 weeks, 9 of them consecutive, from November 1948 to January 1949. Joel Whitburn lists “Buttons and Bows” in his A Century of Pop Music as the #1 song of the year for 1948.
(If I had identified this as a musical hint, I was concerned it might have been TMI. And, yes, it was an easy puzzle.)
I do agree with Clark that when we were kids, the Dinah Shore-dinosaur connection was one we “would play around with."
DINAH SHORE → DINOSAUR (dÄ«′nÉ™-sôr′)
ReplyDeleteDinah Shore Dinosaur
ReplyDeleteAre you ready for some more "Skydiversions, Skydiveboy Style?" Puzz;eria! is serving them up, very soon , this afternoon. The trio of puzzles that "Skydiveboy" (also known as Mark Scott) has cooked up for us in his "Skydiversionary Appetizer" are titled:
ReplyDelete~ “‘Literarygricultural conundrum,’
~ ‘Keyboard character actor,’ and
~ ‘Serving cold revenge leftovers!’”
We upload a new edition of Puzzleria! every Thursday.
Also on our menus this week are:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week titled “I say ‘patellas’, you say ‘patellae’... Let’s call the whole thing off!”
* a Churchy-Pharmy-Schooldaisy Hors d’Oeuvre titled "Words conjure image, image conjures words,"
* a Whither The Weather Slice titled "Hide under shelter, made in the shade,"
* a “Shame Go!” Dessert titled “C’mon down, Johnny Olson?” and
* eleven takes on this weeks Riffing Off Shortz And Kane NPR challenge puzzle titled, "Dinah Shore was a dinosaur!" (including five riffs from Nodd and one from Ecoarchitect).
So, why not drop on by (skydiveboy did!) and enjoy some "immersion in skydiversion!"
LegoWhoRecallsSeengADinahShoreInACvevy!
I wrote, “Take a block of four letters out of the personality’s name. Rearrange. You get a word meaning money.” That’s DINERO.
ReplyDeleteMy kitchen reference was to the song "Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah" (..."strumming on the old banjo")
ReplyDeleteDINAH SHORE, DINOSAUR
ReplyDelete> It's not the name they were born with. And they didn't acquire it for the reason you'd guess.
Unlike many other children of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Frances "Fanny" Rose Shore didn't Americanize her name to blend in. In auditions, she sang the popular song, "Dinah". When a DJ couldn't remember her name, he called her the "Dinah girl", and the name stuck. (Similar to Morning Edition host, A MartÃnez.)
> Speaking of Shea, two relevant pavilions at the 1964 World's Fair were in close proximity.
She was famously sponsored by General Motors, singing "See the USA in your Chevrolet" in TV ads. The Sinclair Oil pavilion and the GM pavilion were close by.
> And, while we're on the subject, the personality once introduced Tennessee Ernie Ford using a different name.
Loyal to her sponsor, she called him "Tennessee Ernie Chevrolet" on her show.
> Starliner wasn't the first Boeing spacecraft to flop.
The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar (for "dynamic soaring") program was cancelled in 1963, after spacecraft construction had already begun, at a cost of $660 million ($6.7 billion in current dollars). (Neil Armstrong was among seven astronauts assigned to the program.)
I gave this clue, which I was pretending was just a question about whether to give a clue (and Blaine thought I was asking that question!)
ReplyDelete"There's an obvious clue, but is it better left unsaid or should I just blurt it out?"
But "unsaid or" anagrams to "dinosaur".
Another more ironic anagram of DINOSAUR is IS AROUND, because such a creature is extinct, and therefore, is no longer around.
DeletepjbDidn'tKnowBirdsAreLivingDinosaurs,Though(?)
Also: there's a flaw in the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteDinosaurs are not actually creatures of the past! Because birds are dinosaurs, and they are very much of the present.
The flaw doesn't interfere with the puzzle, obviously, and it's kind of nitpicky to complain about it, but zoologists really do say birds are dinosaurs. (Word Woman got my reference, and has mentioned "non-avian dinosaurs" above.)
DINAH SHORE"~~>"DINOSAUR"
ReplyDelete(Removing 2d letter of 2d name (H) of late TV personality DiINAH SHORE will yield a result that "phonetically sounds like a creature if the past:"---->DINOSAUR)
Dinah Shore, dinosaur
ReplyDeleteDinah Shore/Dinosaur
ReplyDeleteMarlon Brando started as Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
In Godfather, Sal Tessio was played by Abe Vigoda.
Abe Vigora played Det. Phil Fish on Barney Miller.
Barney is a purple Dinosaur. .
DINAH SHORE --> DINOSAUR
ReplyDeleteLike everyone else, I clued the "shore," by saying I'm away for the Labor Day Weekend.
My clue was some trivia about Colgate toothpaste. In 1972, Dinah Shore helped found the Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Tournament, which, in its current identity as the Chevron Championship, remains one of the major golf tournaments on the LPGA Tour.
ReplyDeleteDinah Shore --> dinahsore --> dinosaur
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “Musical clue: Banjo.” “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” contains the lyric, “Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah.” “Strumming’ on the old banjo” is the last line.
Dinah shore is the answer of course I was all set to post today right at noon but I got into a conversation where I'm camping and so I've been didn't realize and now I'm doing it I'm sitting looking at the Pacific ocean on the Washington coast and having a great time in the sun and I'll be back in a few days later
ReplyDeleteDINAH SHORE and DINOSAUR
ReplyDeleteVery first one I came up with, noticed it many times before the puzzle even came up Sunday.
pjb'sMomLovedSeeingDinahOnCarolBurnett'sShow,In"WentWithTheWind"
This week's challenge comes from listener Michael Schwartz, of Florence, Oregon. Take the name of a watercraft that contains an odd number of letters. Remove the middle letter and rearrange the remaining ones to name a body of water. What words are these?
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Clark!
DeleteGot it. Nice puzzle, Clark. Waiting for Blaine...
DeleteNearly 1800 correct entries last week.
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