Posted on 04/18/2007 8:07:19 PM PDT by SAJ
Here we go, folks! Good luck to everyone!
The game will end at 43 minutes after the hour, and the winner will be named just as fast as I can sort out the answers.
Remember, the answer to EVERY clue is a single letter of the alphabet.
Please answer with (clue number) - (letter). Thanks!
And the clues are:
The Clues. The answers are, in all cases, a single letter of the alphabet.
Please answer with (clue number) - (letter) for any questions you care to answer.
Some are easy; some are very difficult.
Good luck!
1) Zuider?
2) Kaboo?
3) Don't pull too many of these?
4) Sheep?
5) Where to find spellers?
6) Average, in theory?
7) Symbol for tungsten?
8) A house extention?
9) 18 of these at the Masters?
10) Mary, with lipstick?
11) Originally, one head of cattle?
12) 'Rubber Ball' man?
13) An enormous cup?
14) X x L ?
15) Judy Garland called out to her?
16) You are NOT making this contract!
17) The voiceless fricative?
18) Michael used to like to hit it?
19) You won't leave home without it!
20) Warum? Pochemu?
21) Amperage?
22) The most frequent 'silent' letter?
23) Most of the earth's atmosphere?
24) 2nd person plural of the verb ''to be''?
25) Line up?
26) Chicago Beans?
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1) Zuider? Z
2) Kaboo? L
3) Don’t pull too many of these?
4) Sheep? U
5) Where to find spellers? B
6) Average, in theory?
7) Symbol for tungsten? W
8) A house extention?
9) 18 of these at the Masters? O
10) Mary, with lipstick?
11) Originally, one head of cattle?
12) ‘Rubber Ball’ man?
13) An enormous cup? F
14) X x L ? D
15) Judy Garland called out to her? M
16) You are NOT making this contract!
17) The voiceless fricative?
18) Michael used to like to hit it?
19) You won’t leave home without it!
20) Warum? Pochemu?
21) Amperage?
22) The most frequent ‘silent’ letter?
23) Most of the earth’s atmosphere? N
24) 2nd person plural of the verb ‘’to be’’? R
25) Line up? Q
26) Chicago Beans?
The winner is: no one, no answers were submitted.
In the interest of an honest game, here are the answers:
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1) Zuider? -- Z, Zuider Zee. Our Dutch friends are certainly embarrassed here.
2) Kaboo? -- P kaboo, I see you
3) Don't pull too many of these? -- Pulling more than 6 G's can be fatal
4) Sheep? -- Ewes, or Us
5) Where to find spellers? -- At Bees, or Bs.
6) Average, in theory? -- C is typically the 'average' grade in school, not counting grade inflation.
7) Symbol for tungsten? -- W.
8) A house extention? -- An ell, or L.
9) 18 of these at the Masters? -- Every hole has a tee, or T.
10) Mary, with lipstick? -- Mary Kay, right? or K.
11) Originally, one head of cattle? -- In Phoenicia, cattle were counted by writing a symbol for each critter that resembled a triangle, after the shape of the cow's head. Over time, and after migration of this abbrev to Greece, this became the letter 'alpha', or A.
12) 'Rubber Ball' man? -- Bobby Vee made that song famous in 1961.
13) An enormous cup? -- Most would agree that a brassiere with cup size F is enormous.
14) X x L ? Roman numerals: X=10, L=50, 10 * 50 =500, or D.
15) Judy Garland called out to her? -- ''Auntie Em''.
16) You are NOT making this contract! -- In contract bridge, one 'doubles' the opponent when one thinks they won't make the contract.
The symbol for 'double' is X.
17) The voiceless fricative? -- In linguistics, that would be the letter F (or, if you're a formalist, the phoneme 'eff').
18) Michael used to like to hit it? -- Michael Jordan was well famed for 'hitting the J'.
19) You won't leave home without it! -- Oxygen, certainly, or O.
20) Warum? Pochemu? -- German and Russian, respectively, for 'why', or Y.
21) Amperage? -- In physics, 'I' is the common symbol for the amount of electrons flowing thru a circuit, the amperage.
22) The most frequent 'silent' letter? -- 'E', without doubt. Fame, fine, dine, wine, kine, tine, and thousands others.
23) Most of the earth's atmosphere? -- Nitrogen, chemical symbol 'N'.
24) 2nd person plural of the verb ''to be''? -- I am, you R.
25) Line up? -- Americans 'line up'; Britons 'queue', or Q.
26) Chicago Beans? -- The ticker symbol for soybeans, as traded in Chicago, is 'S'.
You are the CLEAR winner!
Your score is: 21. 9 correct, 3 incorrect. F is indeed an enormous cup, but H is more enormous...and besides, F is the 'voiceless fricative'.
Kaboo? P kaboo, yes?
Surely we would agree there are 18 tees, Ts, at the Masters.
Well done!
There are also 18 holes, which look like this
O
You won't leave home w/o oxygen, O. True?
Well played!
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