Rearrange the letters in the person's full name and you get a quiet animal.Q: Name a place where experiments are done (two words). Drop the last letter of each word. The remaining letters, reading from left to right, will name someone famously associated with experiments. Who is it?
A: TEST LAB --> TESLA
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One of the least interesting Sunday Puzzles lately.
ReplyDeleteAt least this didn’t suck away as much of my time as last week’s did. ---Rob
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ReplyDeleteAh, I see why. Sorry, Blaine.
DeleteKind of reminds me of a 1980s TV show.
ReplyDeleteWhat show?
DeleteQuite easy to solve this. Yawn.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the terrific on-air appearance, John!
Congrats to John and happy (belated) birthday!
ReplyDeleteJohn, you did great!
ReplyDeleteCongrats and happy milestone birthda again to jsulbyrne, and well done!
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ReplyDeleteJohn was a wonderful NPR on-air participant. Congrats to you, John. I especially liked your clever ad lib about "SINNER+G/synergy" at the end of the challenge.
Delete...Oh, and Happy Birthday!
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Only about 300 listeners came up with Hudson Bay last week. I'm guessing there will be at least 1500 this week.
ReplyDeleteUnusually, the name can be anagrammed into more words than there are letters.
ReplyDeleteCreated Equal
ReplyDeleteCreated Equal: A Case for the Animal-Human Connection is a book by Ernie Bringas, who, although a co-founder of The Rip Chords, did not participate in the recording of their biggest hit, Hey Little Cobra, as he was studying for the ministry at that time. A cobra will COIL like a spring when it's getting ready to strike.
DeleteI have a very cool alternate answer that would fit perfectly if the word "famously" were replaced with "usually." Unfortunately, saying more before Thursday would be TMI.
ReplyDeleteNot as direct as another well-known.
ReplyDeleteHo hum. Nice work, John!
ReplyDeleteIt's an odd puzzle choice by Will given the state of the world today.
DeleteReminiscent of a former chain retail store.
ReplyDeleteI smell a fraud!
ReplyDeleteAh, I was thinking about how to clue along these lines -- now I won't bother.
DeleteOkay, musical clue: Ziggy!
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DeleteCongrats on the outstanding studio performance this morning! I prefer a box spring mattress to foam.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the comments, I get the sense that people think this puzzle stinks.
ReplyDeleteNow I know other ladies' agendas.
ReplyDeleteThe answer I got does not match Blaine's clue, I don't think.
ReplyDeleteNvm! I see!
Deletethe ease of solving this was shocking, first guess
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle is X-rated.
ReplyDeleteNice, Bobby.
DeleteElon Musk is the head of Tesla and X, formerly known as Twitter.
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ReplyDeleteCall it what you want, but, a nice easy puzzle for today is most welcomed.
ReplyDeleteName a gracious sign of old age (two words). Drop the last letter of each word. The remaining letters, reading from left to right, will name a famous American poet.
ReplyDeleteName an American abstract expressionist painter => a far more famous American.
Name something you do not want in your car => the current US President.
Thanks, everyone!
ReplyDeleteThe on-airs that got cut, as best as I can recollect them:
an exposition > a leader of Egypt
food from heaven > an aquatic mammal
a punctuation mark > the opposite of drama
That first one tripped me up because my pronunciation of the answer doesn't phonetically match what Will was going for. A merciful edit.
Keep comity and carry onity.
DeleteI have it, but I didn't at first think the “someone famously associated with experiments” was an actual person...
ReplyDeleteI just back from a vacation in the person's country of birth.
ReplyDeleteAnimal clue: Buffalo. .....or is it!?
ReplyDeleteThankfully the election is to end Tuesday evening, not that it will in fact though, as it will drag on and on in one form or another, and we all know this unless we are paying no attention at all, but I see no way this would even be possible.
ReplyDeleteAnyway I would like for us to examine whether or not the media have been "fair and balanced" in their coverage. A balance scale will be both fair and balanced when actually used when a like amount is placed on either side. But what about when a greater amount and a lesser amount are being weighed. The scale will indicate being fair, but is it also balanced? No, it is not. Now, back to the media. What in the world do they mean by being "fair and balanced?" To me it means they must make allowances to make the scale read the same on either side. Is that not skewing the truth? Balanced to my way of thinking indicates a belief that both sides of the scale must read out equally. But how are almost any issues going to actually balance out using that definition?
Why are all controversies being reported as to having equal arguments? Is it fair to argue that transgender children and their families are treated fairly by society when they obviously are not? How about the way the poor are treated by society compared by the rich? Not to mention how some groups are treated in a court of law compared to another. I think our media are more than overdo for a radical reconsideration of how reporting should be done.
Three hundred. And I thought that it was reasonably easy, perhaps because I once owned a redbone coonhound by name of ADHDie (pronounced "Addy"). Anyhow, I headed out to church this a.m., listening to NPR, and ended up with the answer before I could fill my Thermos with convenience store coffee.
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ReplyDeleteGot this one quite easily—I wonder if being from New Jersey helped?
ReplyDeleteSo am I. May I ask where, or would it be a form of TMI?
DeleteI think I understand the New Jersey reference. I too got this one easily, and being from New York was not helpful.
DeleteI think I do, too, and I also think it may be particularly relevant to someone on the blog.
DeleteI think I do too, but I don't know which person Dr. K means! So maybe I'm wrong.
DeleteNot at all! I'm originally from Cranford, which is quite appropriate for a Victorianist...how about you, Dr. K? And my clue was a reference to Tesla's rival Edison, the "Wizard of Menlo Park."
DeleteBorn in Jersey City, grew up in North Bergen, and lived for many years in Montclair. I had a colleague from Cranford. Small world!
DeleteSpeaking of Victorians, Dr. A, are you familiar with Clyde Ryals, the Carlylean? I had him for Victorian lit as an undergraduate. He was a brilliant scholar and teacher as well as a gracious Southern gentleman who had the uncanny ability to know everyone's name in class by the second day. Extraordinary.
DeleteYes, I mainly know his work on Tennyson! Wonderful to hear he was such a class act. If you were at MSU, by the way, we almost certainly have friends in common...small world, indeed!
DeleteRe-submitting, I thought someone might know the current US president:
ReplyDeleteName something you do not want in your car (two words). Drop the last letter of each word. The remaining letters, reading from left to right, will name the current US president.
Answer now?
DeleteBig dent, Biden?
DeleteThis puzzle is current.
ReplyDeleteThat's direct!
DeleteYip Harburg would have rewritten the lyrics if he could have foreseen what was to come.
ReplyDeleteMetamorphosis rocks!
ReplyDeleteBattles won - wars lost.
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ReplyDeleteIt's not Thursday yet, guys!
DeleteOops, I wasn't even thinking of the puzz.
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DeleteEight years ago, in 2016, I was at the Democratic campaign party celebration venue, where thousands of us were prepared to enjoy a narrow Clinton victory, but now I am am remembering and feeling the same as I did then as I left early to go back home dejected. I cannot believe it is all happening again, but it appears to being so. If it turns out the way it now looks likely, I believe we are heading towards WWIII, as it already appears to be the case. I am devastated. Warning the citizens of this country as to what is happening is more like adding fuel to the fire than being a preventive tactic. Why are we unable to learn from our previous mistakes? Where do we go from here?
ReplyDeleteThe learning points are: 1. Calling half the country names doesn't work. Following on with Rudolfo and replies above, Biden did put a Big Dent in the Kam-pain. 2. Disenfranchising Biden primary voters backfired. 3. Walz is no Shapiro.
DeleteRemember, remember, the 5th of November!
ReplyDeleteI'd rather forget!
DeleteTake a two syllable word meaning victory. Triumph will do. Remove the last letter of each syllable, what do you have? Trump! Sorry to gloat, but you guys all ganged up on me, particularly Crito.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Hitler was democratically elected makes him no less vile.
DeleteI ganged up on you?
DeleteI think you mean the Fox News "stolen valor" bullshit.
It's true, Jan had already called you on one of the lies, and I then called you on another one (I cited the Wall Street Journal). I guess that's the "ganging up" you have in mind. I'm sorry if that hurt your feelings.
No, this TRiUMPh negates all that!
DeleteBy the way, Crito, watch your language!
DeleteDemocracy is as democracy does.
ReplyDeleteOne commentator nicely summarize the liberals' problem with two word "arrogance, condescension".
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday's NY Times Opinion section spent all of every 12 pages with vitriol and near slander against trump without a hint of realization tha their attitude is representative of this problem.
One comment that I think fairly describes the typical Trump supporter is that he/she dislikes his presidential image as but admires his wilingness to actually take action to address problems.
As for media fact checking, Trump is the 45th president, and will have the 47th presidency.
Deletecorrection 44th president and 47th presidency
DeleteOkay, how about I say Trump is the 44th person to be a US President. I'm sticking with the phrase "47th presidency".
DeleteAnd, after my nth attempt at counting correctly, I'm back to 45th, not 44th., Wiki has a numeral listing that shows this.
DeleteYou were correct the first time. Counting the unique individuals that have been President, Trump is 44 on the list and Biden is 45. Counting "presidencies" Grover Cleveland is on the list as 22nd and 24th, Trump is on as 45th, Biden has the 46th spot and Trump's upcoming "presidency" will be 47th on the list.
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DeleteThere is one last important official act the Vice President will perform. On January 6 2025 she will graciously and Constitutionally declare her opponent the president-elect by certifying the electors. Like Gore in 2001, Mondale in 1981, Nixon in 1961, it's a duty the Vice President is uniquely tasked with. I believe she will discharge that duty with love and humor and dignity.
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It's traditional meaning. When she picks up the gavel that day to the time she finally sets it down, I'm going to say to myself, by her action in that moment añd place America truly IS and WILL BE "GREAT AGAIN"
What a bunch of childish hogwash!
DeleteThe country has chosen to self-destruct. More important than that is the planet is doing the same. Humans are choosing hate over love, and it will destroy us if we do not turn it around.
At the risk of sounding like a non-PC ableist, I think Sonia Sotomayor needs to ask herself whether she's sure she can hang in there another 4+ years, or whether she should resign now, with a Democratic White House and Senate. We can't afford another RBG -> Amy Coney Barrett.
ReplyDeleteWell, you are an able-ist if you support sporting events where a biological male is allowed to compete with women. Biological man Imane Khelif beating up Angela Carini for 46 seconds. "Lia" Thomas, a six-foot XY-er against biological women. So much for your Phil Donohue-Woody Allen-Alan Alda PC credentials. Thank God, yes I mean God, that Trump will end that!!!!
Deletejan, something to consider whilst there is still time.
DeleteTEST LAB; TESLA
ReplyDelete"It's an odd puzzle choice by Will given the state of the world today." Any puzzle with a connection to Elon Musk (via the car TESLA) is a bizarre choice given Musk's buying votes in the 2024 election.
And here we are.
And, weirdly, Word Woman, there is a connection between Nikola Tesla and Donald Trump. When Tesla died in 1943, the F. B. I. asked Trump’s uncle, John G. Trump, a renowned electrical engineer and professor at M. I. T., to investigate Tesla’s estate to see if there was anything dangerous that shouldn’t fall into enemy hands. (There were rumors of a death ray.) Trump determined that there wasn’t.
DeleteI can think of a quip to conclude this post, but I think discretion is the better part of valor.
Dr K, thanks for the scoop about John G. Trump and the connection to Tesla.
DeleteYes, many thanks for that tale, I went through a Tesla fanboy phase a long time ago, and never heard that story ... because the name Trump had no importance ...
DeleteTEST LAB → Nikola TESLA, Blaine's “quiet animal” → SILENT KOALA.
ReplyDeleteTEST LAB —> TESLA
ReplyDeleteAs many noted, the puzzle was easy, primarily because “lab” was such a common location (perhaps the most common one) where experiments take place and the only famous person associated with experiments whose name ends in ”la” is Tesla. (Are there any others?) It was the first place and name I thought of, but I mistakenly kept trying to make the full name—Nikola Tesla—work. Soon enough, though, I figured it out. Sorry again, Blaine, about the TMI.
Unusually, Tesla, a 5-letter name, can be rearranged to get 6 words— least, slate, stale, steal, tales, and teals—more words than there are letters. Here’s a challenge: Construct the shortest grammatical, coherent sentence with all six words and as few others as possible. Or a variant: all six words plus “Tesla” and as few others as possible.
As for Dr. Awkward’s post mentioning New Jersey, didn’t someone on this blog work at Bell Labs (Holmdel, NJ), or am I mistaken? Or have I misunderstood Dr. A's post?
Hi Dr K, I found eleven:
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leats
salet
setal
slate
stale
steal
stela
taels
tales
teals
! My cup runneth over.
Delete(A shout-out to Edison—see above!)
DeleteTesla (test lab). NIKOLA TESLA’s name anagrams into KATE and ALLISON. On the TV show “Kate & Allie,” Allie’s real first name was Allison.
ReplyDeleteWe at Puzzleria! are pleased-as-punch (Hubert Humphrey Reference) to present to all of you beautiful Blainsvillians this "Tortitudinal Quintet" of puzzle excellence on our blog this week. Our friend Tortitude (aka Laura Kozma) has created five of her always-appetizing-and-challenging "Slow But Sure Puzzles," titled:
ReplyDelete~ Compatible Partners,
~ Starry eyes,
~ From Inner to “O”uter,
~ Dumping the “Dupes,” and
~ Crawl, Fly, Swim.
You can see (and try to solve) them very soon, within the hour, when we shall proudly upload this week's edition of P!
Also on our menu this week are:
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* a Red Sky In Morning Hors d’Oeuvre titled “Bored with board games?”
* a Cinematic Slice of scrumptious puzzle titled "Organic anatomy lesson,"
* a Three-Course Dessert titled "Natural-food antepenultimatum," and
* Ten riff-offs of this week's NPR puzzle challenge titled "Did Tesla 'zap' TB in his tesT laB?" (which includes six terrific riffs authored by our friend Nodd, whose "Nodd ready for prime time" is also a recurring Puzzleria! mainstay feature).
That adds up to 19 puzzles for your solving enjoyment! So why not join us... Puzzleria! will be soon within your grasp.
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I wrote, “At least this didn’t suck away as much of my time as last week’s did.” LEAST anagrams to TESLA.
ReplyDeleteMy “very cool” alternate answer for the puzzle, had it specified someone “usually” associated with experiments, refers to a cryogenics research team: COLD LABORATORY --> COLLABORATOR.
ReplyDeleteTest Lab >>> Tesla
ReplyDeleteTest lab, Tesla
ReplyDeleteTEST LAB -> TESLA
ReplyDelete> I smell a fraud!
Musk has a strong odor. Both Elon and Nikola are known for promising more than they can deliver (moon lander, death ray, fully self-driving car, telegeodynamics, etc.)
> Metamorphosis rocks!
TESLA anagrams to SLATE (my favorite starting Wordle!), a metamorphic rock.
I said: "Animal clue: Buffalo. .....or is it!?" Nikola Tesla's massive power station was built in three years near the upper Niagara River. It was the first, large-scale complex to use alternating current. In 1895, electricity transmitted from Niagara Falls reached a nearby factory in the city. In 1896, the flip of a switch caused the first power to surge from Niagara Falls to Buffalo. Tesla’s brilliant system had worked!
ReplyDeleteMy clue was an acrostic of NIKOLA.
ReplyDeletetest lab --> Tesla
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “I prefer a box spring mattress to foam.” Such mattresses are made of coils. This to evoke the Tesla Coil.
TEST LAB, TESLA
ReplyDeleteMy clue was Quite easy to solve this.
Which kinda spells out QuEST, the world's least favorite TEST LAB.
TEST LAB, TESLA. My hint -- One of the least interesting Sunday Puzzles lately. "Least" anagrams to Tesla.
ReplyDeleteName a gracious sign of old age ... name a famous American poet.
ReplyDeleteWHITE MANE => WHITMAN
Name an American abstract expressionist painter ... name a far more famous American.
FRANZ KLINE => FRANKLIN
Name something you do not want in your car ... name the current US president.
BIG DENT => BIDEN
My "former chain retail stores" Is Woolworth's erstwhile chain of "Nickel (ergo Nicola) and Dime" stores.
ReplyDeleteNow that the election is essentially over, newly released information is being made public that sheds more light on how Trump managed to escape serious injure during his first assassination attempt. It seems there was a previously undisclosed heckler in attendance who at the critical moment yelled out: "Donald Duck!"
ReplyDeleteThis quacked me up.
DeleteI was afraid you might think it a bit Daffy.
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DeleteDuck à l'orange?
Oui, but without the taste.
DeleteThis is all really humorous, and I feel we all need more humor in our lives, but it also has a more serious side. I frequently use humor in order to push us all to think more intelligently about our situation living on Earth. I am not predicting what will actually happen in our near future, but I do see us heading in the direction of world wide famine and WWIII. You might believe the Great Depression was as bad as it can get, along with WWII, but I beg to differ. When we fail to learn from our mistakes, the choices we are presented with increase in difficulty and it becomes even harder for us to wake up and behave more as we should. I see us all in more trying times than ever have confronted us before. If you believe it cannot happen here, I hope and wish you are the one who is correct, and not I.
DeleteTEST LAB, (Nikola)TESLA
ReplyDeletepjbLikesBlaine's"SilentKoala"Anagram...HavingTroubleComingUpWithATopperForThatOne!
A TOKEN IS ALL?
This week's challenge comes from Steve Baggish, of Arlington, Mass. Using only the letters of PANDERS, and repeating them as often as desired, spell a certain entrée at a seafood restaurant (3-6 3 7).
ReplyDeleteToo easy...figured it out before I finished reading it...
DeleteI think I have it but is it 3-6 or 3-7 .. what I have is 3-7
ReplyDeleteIt is all of that...a hyphenated word and then two words
DeleteThe puzzle is stated correctly. The 6-letter word is interesting, in the context of the puzzle.
DeleteThank you Splainit
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