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 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?

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 you’d 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 you’ll end up with a famous American figure from the 20th century, in two words. Who are they?

September 27, 2017

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?

September 20, 2017

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?

September 12, 2017

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.

August 31, 2017

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?

July 31, 2017

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

July 13, 2017

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?

July 06, 2017

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.

May 12, 2017

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?

April 26, 2017

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

March 14, 2017

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