I was thinking the answer was a city in Florida until I pulled the correct answer out of the recesses of my brain.Q: Name a U.S. city and its state — 12 letters altogether.
Change two letters in the state's name. The result will be the two-word title of a classic novel. What is it?
A: EUGENE OREGON --> EUGENE ONEGIN by Alexander Pushkin
Q: Take a certain 7-letter word. Remove the first letter and you get a 6-letter synonym of that word. And the letter you removed is an abbreviation for the opposite of both words. What words are these?
A: FACTUAL and ACTUAL --> F (False)
And if you take one letter in the make of a car and turn it 90 degrees and another letter is turned 180 degrees the result is a fish.Q: Think of a common girl's name. Write it in all capital letters. Rotate one of these letters 90 degrees and another of the letters 180 degrees. The result will name a make of a car. What is it?
A: WANDA --> MAZDA
My hint this week --> HfHN:AGBfERQ: Take the name KIM KARDASHIAN. Rearrange the letters to get the last name of a famous actress along with a famous one-named singer. Who are these people?
A: (Nicole) KIDMAN and SHAKIRA
I can tell you it isn't a knee.Q: Think of a familiar two-word phrase starting with T and ending with S, in which the interior letters name part of the human body. Remove the first and last letters of that word, and what remains will name another part of the human body. What's the phrase, and what are the body parts?
A: THE ARTS --> HEART --> EAR
I think I may start my week with a folded tortilla.Edit: The phrase "Monday Taco" would work if two-word phrases were allowed.Q: Consider this sentence:
Benjamin, the Greenpeace ombudsman in the panorama, was charmed by the chinchilla fragrance.
This sentence contains seven words of seven or more letters. They have something very unusual in common. What is it, and can you think of an eighth word with the same property?
A: Drop one or more letters from the middle of the word and what remains is the name of a country (Benin, Greece, Oman, Panama, Chad, China, France). There are many other words you could name (Chamomile, Chipotle, Childlike, Childcare, Indicia, Ironman, Niggler, Nightclubber, Nightcrawler, Turnkey, etc.)
I'd say the first word describes the complete works of this author, not just most.Q: Name a well-known U.S. city with two words in its name. The second word sounds like the last name of a famous 20th-century writer. The first word is something found in virtually every work of this author. What is the city, and who is the author?
A: CORPUS CHRISTI --> Agatha CHRISTIE and CORPUS
The first person who says it's a little more than 5.3 million is getting banned.Q: If ELI is 173, and LOIS is 5,107, how much is LESLIE?
A:LESLIE = 317,537
It's no time to tucker out on this puzzle.Q: Name a creature in 9 letters, 2 words. Drop the consecutive letters 'UR' and what remains when read in order will be the name of a major US city (in 7 letters).
A: SEA TURTLE --> SEATTLE
Personally I like french toast for breakfast.Q: Take the brand name of a product that's usually consumed in the morning. Drop the first two letters and read the remaining letters backward. You'll get a word associated with the evening. What is the brand, and what's the word?
A: CHEERIOS --> SOIRÉE
