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?
Sunday, November 03, 2024
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Nov 3, 2024): Experimental Place
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Nov 3, 2024): Experimental Place
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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.
ReplyDeleteQuite easy to solve this. Yawn.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the terrific on-air appearance, John!
Puzzle would have been more challenging had it been written, “Name a place where experiments are performed, drop two letters and rearrange to get the name of a famous experimenter.”
ReplyDeleteCongrats 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!
LegoWhoThinksJohn(aka"jsulbyrne")DidBlainesvilleProud!
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
ReplyDeleteI 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!
Boycott
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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.
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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.
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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DeleteIt's not Thursday yet, guys!
DeleteOops, I wasn't even thinking of the puzz.
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