Think of a two-word English phrase that’s been anglicized from its French origins. Reverse the order of the words, add a letter to the end, and you’ll get a new two-word phrase that might describe a French person’s taste in food.

Think of a word in 9 letters. Rearrange the letters to get two nouns that are both part of a common proverb. What words are these?

Name a place on Earth in eleven letters. Seven of these letters appear chronologically in the alphabet. What place is this?

Name an actress. Remove a letter in her last name to get a crime. Change one letter and rearrange the letters of her first name to get a word related to that crime. Who is it?

Name two words that are the same part of speech, and mean the same thing, but are different cases. Put the two words together to get, phonetically, a well-known food brand.

Take the first name of a famous woman. Remove the first letter to get a noun, phonetically. This woman is arguably both the most famous person with this name and the most well-known example of this noun. Who is it?

Think of a pair of five-letters words are used frequently around Christmas. They’re not synonyms, but they’re close. You can rot-7 one of the words to get the other. That is, you can shift each letter in one word 7 spots down the alphabet to get the other

What 20th century figure’s last name is made up of three consecutive U.S. state abbreviations?

The TV show LOST has all its letters in alphabetical order. Name two Oscar-winning movies — both five letters long — that also have this property.

What mountain’s name, when anagrammed, is not the name a of river in Africa?

Name a food in 7 letters. Change one letter, anagram it, and you’ll have an activity that this food will allow you to do more of, according to a certain person.

Take a famous 20th century author. Combine a common nickname for his first name with the first letter of his last name, and the result will be the name of a retail store. What names are these?

Name something that you might walk on in the forest. Replace one of the letters with something you might walk on at the beach. The result will be something you might walk on around an angry person.

Name a famous 20th century musician. Change one letter in his first name to get the first name of a 20th century TV character. Change one letter in the musician’s last name to get the first name of the actor who played that character. Who are these people?

Name a professional baseball team. Swap the first two letters and — phonetically — you’ll end up with the name of a different pro baseball team. Which two teams are these?