January 07, 2019
Name a word you might use as a first word in a conversation. Change one letter
and youâll end up with a word that means, in some contexts, âfirstâ. What words
are these?
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November 14, 2018
Take something frequently written in text messages. Swap two letters and say the
result out loud, and phonetically youâll describe something else frequently
written in text messages. What are they?
October 19, 2018
Think of a place where youâre often asked to make a couple of choices, one right
after another. For both choices, youâre asked to choose between two things, and
in both cases you could use the same two words to describe your options. But, in
each case, the
September 13, 2018
Name a very modern two-word phrase thatâs used when describing a foolish
decision. It is a homophone of another two-word phrase, itself popular for only
about 30 years old, that describes a now-common object. What phrases are these?
July 31, 2018
Name a product found in a supermarket checkout line, in two words. Remove the
space and 2 adjacent letters, and change the last letter, and youâll end up with
one word that describes an activity only possible to do at night. What are they?
July 17, 2018
Name a famous person from Chicago â first and last names. The last name ends in
an E. Change the E to an I and rearrange the letters in just the last name to
get a famous actor â whose first name is the same as the first person's. Who
July 02, 2018
Name any movie (there are lots of possibilities) that could fit in the missing
blank of this ordered and complete set:
North by Northwest
Cedar Rapids
___________
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Space Jam
June 05, 2018
What world capital sounds like two Greek letters?
May 21, 2018
Take the last name of a young movie director. Remove one letter, and what
remains will be, phonetically, a synonym for a word in the title of his latest
movie. Who is this?
March 29, 2018
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?
February 06, 2018
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?
January 30, 2018
What is mentionedâŠ
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?
January 17, 2018
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?
December 27, 2017
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 youâd find on the floor of that business. Who is this person?
November 21, 2017
Name a famous European figure from the 19th century, whose name contains three
words. Remove 3 consecutive letters, and youâll end up with a famous American
figure from the 20th century, in two words. Who are they?