Take the name of a mountain. Change one letter, anagram it, and the result will be what you call someone who plays for the nearby MLB franchise. What mountain and franchise are they?

Name two activities done at a gym, one word each. Remove a single letter from one of the words. The resulting two-word phrase will describe something one might see at a circus. What words are they?

What is mentioned… 55 times in Wuthering Heights, 35 times in Dracula, 3 times in Through the Looking-Glass, once in Anna Karenina, and never in War and Peace?

Name a popular shopping website. Shift two of the letters forward in the alphabet by the same amount, and the result will be another popular shopping website. What sites are these?

Take the full name of a famous singer. Remove a letter, and add a letter, to the first name to get a kind of business. Then remove 3 letters from the last name to get something you’d find on the floor of that business. Who is this person?

Name a famous European figure from the 19th century, whose name contains three words. Remove 3 consecutive letters, and you’ll end up with a famous American figure from the 20th century, in two words. Who are they?

Think of a female celebrity, eight letters total in her name. Change two of them, anagram it, and you’ll get another female celebrity. Who are they?

Name a 20th century author and a 21st century actress, both born in Eastern Europe. Their first names start with the same first four letters, and their last names start with the same three letters. Who are they?

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