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1	Which image is the odd one out? image deleted Answered by Mark, at the first time of asking and now also by Simon. By the way, the bloke with the pipe isn't Gregory Peck. The boxer is Sugar all the rest are salt: Sugar Ray Robinson, Ghandi making salt, an Old Salt, roman soldier paid in salt, and SALT negotiators.
2	Here's a rather interesting puzzle that will test your skills to the limit. I hope you enjoy it! Hidden in this message is another, secret message, encoded with steganography, a useful technique used by very clever cryptographers. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to determine the actual content of the hidden secret message. How? That's up to you to find out! I wish you good luck. Solved by Graybags and Zack This one bugged me! I like to think I'm good with these things. In the end it was quite simple. Take the number of words in each sentence...13,5,19,19,1,7,5 and give then the corresponding letter in the alphabet (i.e. A=1, B=2 etc) and the message is...er..."message". - Graybags Mike
3	superimposing similar hues putting the ball in your own net a welcoming conflagration What is the link? "Blue on blue", "own goal", and "friendly fire" -- all slang for firing on your own soldiers. - Alan
4	image deleted What's the connection? Neal Slang terms for breasts of various shapes and sizes. Bazookas (at least the image I stole was called bazooka), bee stings, puppies, melons and pancakes.
5	Three teams, Mansea, Arsechester, and Chelnal (whom we'll call M, A, and C) each played the others once at football (soccer). M scored 4 goals total in their two matches, but won only one of them. A scored 3 goals total without conceding any. C drew (tied) one of their matches, and scored 2 goals total. What was the score in each of the three matches (M vs A, M vs C, A vs C)? Answered by: Venky, Graybags, Don, Mike, Jeanluc, David Brain, gkar68, Neal, Zack and Joshua Kreitzer Since A conceded no goals, then all of M's and C's goals came in the M - C match, which had to be M 4, C 2. Since C drew one match (and lost to M), it had to be the match against A, and as C did not score against A, it was, as the results announcer used to put it on BBC World Service when the pools panel decided a match with this result, a "no-score draw". As A scored 3 goals total and conceded none against M, that match had to be A 3, M 0. Results: M 4, C 2; A 3, M 0; A 0, C 0. If there's still a smartarse bonus, notice that "M won only one match" was not necessary to come up with the unique solution. - Don Del Grande Alan
6	Pre-migration activities: * Lounging in the silk sheets * Signing anti-proliferation treaty * Challenging Princess Caroline to a Canadian carrom-like game * Instituting the three-day weekend * Giving advice to the (then) Presidents of the U.S. and Russia * Instituting filled-pastries-for-newborns program Post-migration jobs: * Ice maintenance, Toronto Maple Leafs * Grounds maintenance, Toronto Blue Jays * Cook, pizza restaurant Who was I? Answered by Jeanluc and Patrick As a good Canadian, I immediately recognized the song "King of Spain" by the band Moxy Fruvous. "buried in silk in the royal Boudoir and going nuclear free. And playing crokinole with the Princess of Monaco" (I had a crokinole board as a kid!) "let's make Friday part of the weekend and give every new baby a chocolate eclair" "He Clinton (or Bush), hey Yeltsin, got problems, you phone me" "Now the Leafs (or Habs) called me up to drive the zamboni" "And now I vacuum the turf at Skydome" "And now I work at the Pizza Pizza" All that without looking anything up - I am a diehard Moxy fan. - Jeanluc Now that's as clear as mud to everybody else, isn't it? :-D Zack
7	Question withdrawn.
8	What do these songs all have in common? "Jesus He Knows Me" - Genesis "Life Stinks" - Pere Ubu "Into The Valley" - The Skids "Modern Love" - David Bowie "Into The Groove" - Madonna "Kill Your Sons" - Lou Reed All songs were released on albums with the word "dance" in its title (specifically, the last word of the title): "Jesus He Knows Me" - "We Can't Dance" "Life Stinks" - "The Modern Dance" "Into the Valley" - "Scared to Dance" "Modern Love" - "Let's Dance" "Into the Groove" - "You Can Dance" "Kill Your Sons" - "Sally Can't Dance" And here I was pulling up the lyrics to each of the songs... --John Plasket Andrew Levine
9	Why does treason never prosper? Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. Sir John Harington 1561- 1612 English writer and courtier Epigrams (1618) bk. 4, no. 5 Graybags, Alan, Zack, David Brain, Joshua Kreitzer, Lieven Marchand.
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11	What 6 sided object gave the world one of the greatest “famous last words” stories? Give your answer in the forum.
12	Which soccer player played for Manchester City, Manchester United, his country and Torino? Denis Law Venky: Denis Law - Born in Aberdeen in 1940, Law played his first professional game for Huddersfield in 1956. He moved to Manchester City before being among the very first British players to play on the continent of Europe, joining Torino in 1961. It was in August 1962 that Law moved back to Manchester, this time to United, for a record transfer fee of £115,000. Graybags, Jack and Alan.
13	How accurate do you need to be at throwing darts (expressed as degrees +/-) before it is becomes worthwhile to aim at treble 20 when attempting to score the maximum possible score with three darts? Come on, have a go. I'll need a detailed explanation. I had a discussion with Graybags about this one: > 13. If I am attempting to score a maximum, I would argue that with any > degree of accuracy, it's going to be worthwhile to aim for treble 20 > (there's no way I'm going to get it otherwise) I can see your point, perhaps I better rephrase the question, OK, imagine a bloke comes up to you and grabs hold of your bollocks and says "Er, sport. You take three darts, I take three darts, the one with the highest score keeps these <squeeze>, I'll go first, thud thud thud crash tinkle mmm, that makes 38, your go mate." Look at the board, if you aim "left middle" you will probably score a higher score if you are moderately incompetent, like me. Aiming at treble 20 gets you a lot of 1s and 5s. If you are accurate enough treble 20 is the best place to aim, if you can place your dart to within a 5 millimetre radius you are certainly better off aiming at treble 20, but if your accuracy is only, say 8 centimetres, then you will score better in other parts of the board. How accurate do you have to be? How should I know, I'm not mathematical, but I trust I can understand the right answer when it is explained.
14	How can you link Simon and Garfunkel to a cartoon within a cartoon? Simon and Garfunkel were originally known as Tom and Jerry, the same name as the cartoon which is parodied by Itchy and Scratchy, the cartoon within the Simpsons. - Zack Alan, Jeanluc, Joshua Kreitzer, Neal, Venky
15	He looked out to see the snow was deep and crisp and even, but in which kingdom? Wenceslas was actually known in his day as Vaclav, the Duke of Bohemia. - Zack Venky, Graybags, David Brain, Alan, Jeanluc, Lady of the Brach, Joshua Kreitzer, Neal, Lieven Marchand
16	image deleted Who painted this scene? Les Glaneunes (The Gleaners) by Jean-Francois Millet Alan, Zack, Lieven Marchand and NealNeal's wifewife.
17	Which US President claimed to know only two tunes, and one title? “I only know two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle' and the other isn't.” Ulysses S. Grant. Venky, Alan, Joshua Kreitzer, Lieven Marchand, Neal
18	Honoré de Balzac wished to be so famous that he could perform which activity in society? Answered by Zack but more entries were required to hit quota. Neal offers: working on 18) but found a great quote by him : “No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.” Alan and Christine Day. The answer always had to be “fart” - I just couldn't find it earlier: “I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me ... to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.” - Alan
19	What is this car? image deleted OK, so it's not an E-type. Does one get second chances? If so, it looks awfully like a Ferrari 250 GTO - Alan Also answered by Graybags, also at the second attempt. The Ferari 250 GTO is, in my mind, a strong contender for the title of “The most beautiful car in the world, Jaguars excluded, obviously”
20	Where in the world is this? image deleted Tel Aviv Mark, Alan, gkar68, David Brain, Zack, Joshua Kreitzer

21	Which woman compared her purity to an appropriately fallen precipitation? I think I have an answer for question 21. I'm going to say Tallulah Bankhead: "I'm as pure as the driven slush." --John Plasket Mae West's quote was actually “I used to be snow white but I drifted.” Actress Tallulah Bankhead, however, is supposed to have said “I'm as pure as the driven slush.” - Todd Dashoff Andrea and Russ Perry Jr also suggested the Mae West quote. I was looking for Tallulah Bankhead but they both fit equally well.
22	Using standard deviation, find the odd one out: - Burundi - Georgia - Honduras - Jamaica - Laos - Macedonia - Thailand "Standard deviation" is supposed to indicate a difference in the properties of their national flags. Possibly not the finest pun I've ever attempted. Anyway, all are symmetrical about their horizontal axis (i.e. all can be flown upside-down without anybody noticing), except Burundi. - Alan Alan
23	Which Scottish town is noted for supplying virgins by the dozen, twice over? Inverness, from the traditional folk ditty beloved of drunken soldiers and rugby players which is known as The Ball of Balinour or The Ball of Kirriemuir or just four and twenty virgins. Many versions exist and due to the nature of the occasions on which it is sung new versions and new verses are likely to spring up all the time. Four & twenty virgins came down from Inverness, And when the ball was over there was four and twenty less. It starts on that high point and rapidly descends. Graybags, Alan, David Brain
24	The missing letter is..? Approximately Atomic number 53 Fritz Lang film Gesture of rudeness Dame Judi Dench Personal pronoun Pre-decimal Pound Rontgen's Rays Sign of Triumph SI symbol for unit of capacity Temperature scale Women have two, men just one C = Approximately I = Atomic number 53 M = Fritz Lang film V = Gesture of rudeness M = Dame Judi Dench I = Personal pronoun L = Pre-decimal Pound X = Rontgen's Rays V = Sign of Triumph L = SI symbol for unit of capacity C = Temperature scale X = Women have two, men just one Clearly D (500) is missing. - Zack Also Alan, Glen, Andrea, JeanLuc and Todd Dashoff. David Brain
25	Caroline Duffy Diane Chambers Daphne Moon Norman Buntz Dr. Victor Ehrlich Coach Ken Reeves Who's not really there? Andrea, Alan and Todd suggest coach Ken Reeves as The White Shadow but Don has a more subtle answer in mind, I'll let you have another go. Peter Morris and Andrea have suggested I knew this even before, just didn't think to the second level. Dr. Erlich is a figment -- St. Elsewhere ends with the discovery that the whole series was simply an autistic child's daydream about the building in his snow globe. Don's answer: Norman Buntz, who was a character on "Hill Street Blues" - the others were on shows ("Caroline in the City", "Cheers", "Frasier", "St. Elsewhere", and "The White Shadow", respectively) where characters crossed over, so each show was "real" as far as the others were concerned (Frasier Crane was on both "Cheers" and "Frasier"; Daphne Moon and Niles Crane were in an episode of "Caroline in the City"; characters from "St. Elsewhere" and "Cheers" appeared on each others' shows; Warren Coolidge went from being a student on "The White Shadow" to a hospital orderly on "St. Elsewhere".) (Note that technically, someone can claim that "everything on St. Elsewhere turned out to be in the imagination of an autistic child"...) So I guess that makes this answer by Joshua the closest: Dr. Victor Ehrlich is the answer I believe the questioner is looking for. He was one of the doctors at St. Eligius Hospital on "St. Elsewhere," but on the last episode of the show, the entire story of the series was presented as being a fantasy in the mind of an autistic boy. So Dr. Ehrlich would not in fact exist in the reality of the series as portrayed by that last scene. There's a problem with accepting that the boy imagined the entire series, though. "St. Elsewhere" is connected, directly and indirectly, via crossovers, to literally dozens of other series, including all of the shows that the other characters in this question appeared on. See http://www.poobala.com/cheersandelsewhere.html for further details and links. Still, only in the "St. Elsewhere" universe is it canonical that most of the characters were the product of the autistic boy's imagination, and so it's probably easier to assume that the boy imagined most of the crossovers between "St. Elsewhere" and other shows, while leaving the other shows as "true" within their own universes. Don
26	image deleted Where in the world is this? Johannesburg Graybags, JeanLuc, Andrea and Zack
27	Ebro, Mekong, Rhône, Mississippi, Ganges, Ob, Po, St Lawrence, Rhine, Danube, Niger Which is the odd one out? Just because I don't get along with my half-brother: The St. Lawrence is "odd man out". He worked on it but none of the others. Therefore, they are pure and it is polluted! - Brian, from Dayton Not quite what I was looking for. The St Lawrence is the only one of these major rivers that does not have some form of a delta.
28	Perverse spin Alcohol induced heroism Pre-empting gossip Rubella Leaving unannounced Evenly matched armed confrontation at close quarters Buying oneself a meal in company Profitable arson Condom Pox Running out on a bet Gibberish Which fit twice? Not the best phrased question ever. Sorry, I should have polished it a bit more. Perverse spin is English, alcohol induced heroism is Dutch Courage, pre-empting gossip is scotching a rumour, rubella is German measles, leaving unannounced is taking French leave, evenly matched armed confrontation at close quarters is a Mexican Standoff, buying oneself a meal in company is a Dutch Treat, profitable arson is Jewish Lightning, a condom is a French letter, pox could be any nationality that isn't your own, running out on a bet is Welshing (it can be spelt as welch, but then so can Welsh) and gibberish is Double Dutch. The condom and the pox can both be French or English depending which one you're not. Redingote Anglais is pretty much the same thing as a French Letter. An alternative answer is of course simply double dutch.
29	Cook Hospital Plane Star Punishment Place in order of rank and terminate the series. (General) Hospital, (Major) Star, (Captain) Cook, (Corporal) Punishment, (Private) Plane: Goodbye-ee The six episodes in "Blackadder Goes Forth" Andrew B, Don, John Plaskett, Christine Day and David Brain.
30	You are the Lord of the Manor. All your peasants have a right to graze a fixed number of cows on the limited area of common land. In addition church wardens may keep a bull tethered to post by a stout chain. Wilkin the church warden has bought a new bull. The other bulls all weigh up to a maximum of forty bushels each. Wilkin's bull is a different breed, he weighs sixty, that's a lot of bull. The traditional bull-chain has fifty stout links. When Wilkin's bull was kept on such a chain he didn't get enough grazing and was clearly suffering. Wilkin is asking permission to add another 25 links to his bull's chain, as the bull is half as big again as the other bulls Wilkin thinks this is fair. The villagers disagree but can't suggest a fair length. Assuming that a bull's appetite is in proportion to his weight how many links do you suggest is the right number to add. You must explain your judgement so that all can see it is fair. Wilkin has already agreed to donate his bull to a Hogswatch day feast when his breeding days are through so the other villagers are happy to see Wilkin's bull get as much grass as he needs, but not a blade more. The amount of grass available to each bull at the moment is (5050) pies (a pi is an area of grazing land, perfectly familiar to yokels who measure the weight of their livestock in bushels). That's 2500 pies. Wilkin's bull should have half as much again, because he's that much bigger. So he needs 3750 pies. How many links will give him that? Why, the number which when multiplied by itself comes to 3750, which is 61 and about a quarter. So I propose that we give him 62 links (that is, 12 more than now), and make sure he doesn't get too much extra grass by making his tether-post stouter. Anyone who doesn't agree can come round the back and examine my droit de seigneur. - Alan Wilkin's bull is 1.5 times the size of the other bulls (60/40=1.5) This means he needs 1.5 times the grazing area of the other bulls. Being tethered to a post means the bulls have a circular grazing area, and since the area of a circle is given by Area=pi radius squared the area is proportional to the square of the radius. This means that to multiply the area by 1.5 we must multiply the length of the chain by the square root of 1.5, or about 1.225. 501.225=61.25. Round this to the nearest whole number and we get 61 links, an increase of 11. - Glen A regular 40-bushel bull has access to pi(50^2) square links of grazing land. So Wilkin's bull should get access to half again that much land, 1.5pi(50^2) = pi3750 = about pi(61.2^2). Since we have to add a whole number of links, 11 more would be the most that should be added without giving Wilkin's bull too much (even if it is a little bit short). - Zack Also Alan Cameron.
31	Consider the game of 5 card stud poker, with no wild cards. Each player is dealt five cards, and the best hand wins. Now consider 'types of hands' in poker, as defined by the rules of stud poker. Not specific hands like KK942, but rather a pair, a full house, and so on, each being considered a 'type of hand'. I am stunned when I am dealt four queens and a 7. Based purely on the strength of the cards, how many 'types of hands' can beat me? There are only two types of hand that can beat four queens and a seven: - A better four of a kind (specifically, four kings or four aces) - A straight-flush Normally a royal flush would be considered as beating four of a kind, but of course you have all the queens so a royal flush is impossible. - Glen Andrew B, Andrea, Graybags and Don also got that one. JeanLuc
32	What name links Judgement Day with atomic powered rockets? Dyson. Miles Dyson, implicated as discovering the technology that led to Judgement Day in Terminator 2 and Freeman Dyson, chief scientist behind the Orion project, an amazing idea to launch huge rockets by using multiple nuclear and thermonuclear explosions.
33	Didn't he use to be somebody? Limahl, born Chris Hamill, in exotic Wigan, Limahl is of course an anagram of Hamill. Perhaps my boy band name could be Llewtit? As well as being the lead singer of Kajagoogoo for the brief time they were famous Limahl was also my wife's number one teenage pin-up. It gave me great satisfaction to reveal to her the fact that she is definitely not his type, she's the wrong sex. Photo taken at Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire, 4th June 2004. Answered by Alan Hope, Graybags and Russ Perry Jr
34	Who wrote: “It is our supreme object to have a head looking like a wet football on a neck as thin as a governess's hatpin” Cecil Beaton Todd Dashoff and Aaron
35	What is this? image deleted Airbus A380 Alan, Don and Graybags.

The last question I set included the word "standard". What is the next pair of letters in this sequence:

S T N D R D _ _

TH The pairs of letters are abbreviations for ordinals 1ST = First 2ND = Second 3RD = Third 4TH = Fourth

- Rob (Taoist)

Alan

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Who would be hunting this?

Its a snark, hunting it you would find The Bellman, a Boots, a maker of Bonnets and Hoods, a Barrister, a Broker, a Billiard-marker, a Banker, a Beaver, a Baker & a Butcher. - Peter Morris

I think it was the Baker who hunted the Snark. Memories of Fifties missile names, and Lewis Carroll poems is hazy, now. - Geoff

A twentieth century inventor discovered uses for two chemicals, which were both later bitterly regretted by the environmental movement for causing enormous pollution problems: which of his inventions did he personally regret on his deathbed?

Thomas Midgely, Jr. invented leaded gasoline and chloroflourocarbons (CFCs), but the regrettable invention was a harness to help him get out of his bed (he had limited use of his legs after he contracted polio); he ended up strangling to death when he got tangled in it. - Don

Thomas Midgley developed both the lead additives for petrol (gasoline), and CFCs. At the age of 51 he contracted polio which left him severely disabled. To solve this problem he devised an elaborate system of strings and pulleys that would lift him from bed. Unfortunately, he got caught in the ropes and died of strangulation. - Alan

Which is the odd one out:

27, 79, 47, 82, 78, 21, 10, 6, 29, 16,

These are atomic numbers of elements in the periodic table. The odd one out is 10 (Neon), which is a gas at 298°K -- the rest are solids. - Alan

Not quite what I was looking for. The odd one out is 21. The others could all be names of colours, you might see them as names of colours of paint, nail varnish or other things of that nature.

cobalt (blue) gold, silver, lead, platinum, scandium (odd one out), neon (red), carbon (matt black), copper and sulphur (yellow).

Where in the solar system would you come across the thickest calendar? Assuming every planet defines a day as its own planet's rotational period and a year as the period it takes to travel one orbit around the sun.

First issues to resolve: What is a planet?

http://www.dictionary.com:
"A nonluminous celestial body larger than an asteroid or comet, illuminated
by light from a star, such as the sun, around which it revolves. In the
solar system there are nine known planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto."

However, http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/ tells a rather different
story, omitting the moon and Pluto - and Sedna.

On the other hand, the question does not specifically state that planets
are the only places to be considered (though it does mention them). So in
theory, asteroids might be included - and judging by the spin rates of some
of these, I'd say that one of them would be the winner.

Anyway, here are the relevant facts for the 'traditional' planets:

Planet	Length of day (hours)	Length of year (hours)	Days per year
Mercury	4222.6	2112.0	0.5
Venus	2802.0	5392.8	1.9
Earth	24.0	8764.8	365.2
Mars	24.7	16488.0	667.5
Jupiter	9.9	103944.0	10499.4
Saturn	10.7	257928.0	24105.4
Uranus	17.2	734136.0	42682.3
Neptune	16.1	1435200.0	89142.9
Pluto	153.3	2174112.0	14182.1

(Mercury is interesting: each day lasts 2 years. Try asking your boss for
a long weekend there...)

Clearly, even if Pluto is included, Neptune wins hands-down, with 89,142.9
days per year. Call it a nice round 89,143.

If a calendar (page per day) were printed on 60gsm paper (0.081 mm per
sheet) on Neptune, it would be 7.22m thick - so, quite hard to hang on the
kitchen wall, then...

The Neptunian equivalent of Scott Adams is also going to have to work his
arse off trying to draw that many cartoons in advance for next year.

89143 can only be divided by 97 and 919, two primes. So the poor old
Neptunians are going to have a tough time dividing their Calendar in
efficient ways. Perhaps 919 Super-months, each containing three normal
months of 32, 32 and 33 days? I'd hate to write their payroll and
accounting software.

I'd imagine that the new-year celebrations, taking place 164 times less
frequently than they do here on Earth, would be quite an occasion...

Anyway, the answer is Neptune, unless you count the asteroids, in which
case I'm not really sure, haven't got the data.

Good enough?

- Mike

Also Peter Morris who has got 90,300 as the answer for Neptune, Rob (Taoist) and Todd Dashoff.

* Stab or penetrate
* To bestow, or the thing (usually monetary) bestowed
* Crossing point of a stream
* Teamster
* Shrub

What's the link, and why couldn't I add any more clues?

Stab, penetrate = Pierce (had things gone the other way, could have been Gore) To Bestow=Grant Crossing point of a stream= Ford Teamster= Carter Shrub=Bush There are no other presidents whose surnames are also nouns or verbs, although one more (Hoover) is a proper name for a vacuum cleaner. Also, the list is as current as it can be (the names are in order of service).

- Todd Dashoff

Also Rob (Taoist) Todd Dashoff, Alan, Joshua and Aaron.

Zack

This Olympic swimmer of the 1920s switched to playing chess (where he is also called Spike); he reverted to another sport in the 70s and ended up as an antepenultimate TV character.

Borg

Arne Borg is the swimmer

Henri Grob is the chess player (he played the Grob/Spike opening)

Bjorn Borg was a 70s tennis player

Borg 7 of 9 is a character in Star Trek: Voyager.

Andrew B

How many country names* are

a) Anagrams of other country names

b) Anagrams of regular English words

* Short form name e.g. Bongoland not The Free People's Democratic Kleptocracy of Bongoland

I have used the following as my list source:
http://www.countryreports.org/alphanationtext.htm

with a few tweaks to conform to the rules. I can't find a single pair of
anagram countries.

Even relaxing the rules much further (e.g. "Wallis and Futuna" generates
two more countries, "Wallis" and "Futuna") produced no hits.

As for anagrams of other words, I did much better!

Algeria = Regalia
Angola = Analog (US spelling, but I'm sure some entrants will be from
the US, so it hardly matters)
Bosnia = Bonsai
Burma = Umbra
China = Chain
Dominica = Daimonic (Can't find this in any official places, but Anagram
Artist thought it was a word...?)
East Timor = Estimator
Guiana = Iguana
Iran = Rain / Rani
Israel = Serial
Italy = Laity
Mali = Mail
Nepal = Plane / Panel
Niger = Reign
Oman = Moan
Peru = Pure
Samoa = Omasa
Serbia = Braise / Rabies
Spain = Pains / Nipas
Suriname = Aneurism
Tonga = Tango
Wales = Weals (is Wales permitted?)
Yemen = Enemy (If I were them, I'd change the name... well, I would
if I spoke English!)

A total of 23 countries, and 27 anagram words.

Here are a few with more than one word, that I found while searching. I
hope you enjoy them:

Argentina
Regain tan
Air gannet (what other kind is there??)

Australia
Ultra-Asia
A slut aria
AA rituals

Azerbaijan
Nazi ear-jab (ouch!)
A Zen air-jab (the sound of one hand jabbing?)

Bahamas
Ah, Samba!

Baker Island
Bridal snake
Dark lesbian
Bankers laid
Bleak drains
Ankle braids (none of these are that clever, but I like their poetic
sounds and tenuous commonality of mood)

Bangladesh
Had bangles
Bag handles
Bengal dash

Belgium
Big mule
Lime bug
Bile gum
Glib emu
I be glum
I gel bum (what a great set!! I knew this country wouldn't let me
down...)

Bermuda
Drab emu
Be a drum
A red bum

Bulgaria
Big aural
Labia rug
Arab ugli

Cameroon
Moon race
Acne room
O, romance!
Ace moron

Cartier Islands
Satiric slander (!!)

Cayman Islands
Nasal dynamics
Clansman Daisy (What a mental image!)

Cook Islands
Adonis' locks

Coral Sea Islands
Sailor lands case

Cote d'Ivoire
Erotic video (!!)
O, recite Ovid

Dominican Republic
Public income drain

El Salvador
Ave, dollars!

Europa Island
Soaped urinal

Falkland Islands
Landfall and kiss (is this the Pope?)
Kind sandals fall (And now Ghandi??)

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Ruled by a soporific fool - a craven mug - me.

Germany
Grey man
Gray men (Transatlantic compatibility!)

Glorioso Islands
Solid sailor song

Guinea-Bissau
I use big sauna

Herzegovina
Have zero gin

Honduras
Sun hoard

Howland Island
Hallo wind, sand!

Isle of Man
Amino self (Perhaps all the molceular biologists live there?)

Juan de Nova Island
Join Vandal Sundae

Keeling Islands
Sealskin dingle (is that like a sporran?)

Kingman Reef
German knife
Farming knee (a horrible condition caused by bending over tractor
attachments)

Mexico
Ox mice

Midway Islands
Daily wind mass

Mongolia
Igloo man
Go, oilman!

Montserrat
Tart sermon

Mozambique
Me, qua Zombi

Netherlands
Slander, then!
Stern handle
Lantern shed
Nest-handler

North Korea
Hooker rant

Pakistan
Pain task

Paracel Islands
Pallid Saracens
Sandal replicas
Saline placards
Canal dispersal

Philippines
I ship Nipple

Pitcairn Islands
Scandal in spirit

Puerto Rico
Pot courier

Saint Helena
Inhales neat

Saint Kitts and Nevis
Natives' skin and tits (Ha ha ha ha ha!)

Saint Lucia
Is nautical
A sail tunic

Sao Tome
Same too

Serbia and Montenegro
Being senator - and more

Singapore
Sing opera

Solomon Islands
Mandolins' solos

South Africa
Safari touch (oh yes!)
Auto fish car (?)
Oaf haircuts
Ah! Fractious.

Sudan
And us!

Switzerland
Diners' waltz Shame Vienna isn't the capital.

Vatican City
Can activity
Cacti vanity

- Mike

a. Haven't found any country names that are anagrams of other country names yet.

China - chain

Iran - rain

Laos - also

Mali - mail

Nepal - plane

Oman - moan

Spain - pains

Yemen - enemy

- Joshua

single word anagrams
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* uses local spelling or name of country

Algeria = regalia
Angola = analog
Anguilla = unialgal
*Brasil = libras
B.I.O.T. = obit.
Burma = rumba, umbra
China = chain
*Misr = Rims (Egypt)
Eritrea = tearier
*Filastin = finalist (Palestine)
Guiana = iguana
Greenland = Englander
Iran = rain
Israel = serial, sailer
Italy = laity
Mali = mail
Micronesia = acromonies
Nepal = panel
Niger = reign
*Norge = negro (Norway)
Oman = moan, amon, noma
Palestine = penalties
Peru = pure
*Polska = polkas
Samoa = omasa
Serbia = braise
Spain = pains
Tonga = tango
Tunis = suint
Suriname = arsenium, aneurism
Yemen = enemy
Wales = swale

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If I used multi -word anagrams the list would run to hundreds of thousands,
but here are a few of the more interesting ones :

American Samoa = a cesarian mom
Argentina = an ingrate
Armenia = I am near
Bangladesh = bag handles
Bermuda = bare mud
Denmark = Mr. Naked
Bouvet Island = adult bovines, unstable void, avoid sunbelt
*Kampuchea = a muck heap (Cambodia)
Ivory Coast = sooty vicar
East Timor = most irate
El Salvador = overall sad
Germany = my anger
Grenada = a garden
Iceland = nice lad
Liechtenstein = lenient ethics
Macedonia = a comedian
Malasia = a salami
Montserrat = most errant
Puerto Rico = top courier
Polynesia = noisy peal
Saint Lucia = is nautical
Sierra Leone = earlier eons
Singapore = sip orange
South Africa = safari touch
Switzerland = diners waltz
United Arab Emirates = inebriated amateurs
United States = is unattested

- Peter Morris

Alan's answer: Adobe PDF 21.6 KB

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Where on Earth is this?

Boston: Don, Alan, Todd Dashoff, Joshua and Andrea.

Wishy Washy's Brother

Caesarian's Mother

Attagenus unicolor

What's the connection?

Connection is "carpet". Wishy Washy's brother is Aladdin, who had a magic carpet. Caesarian's mother is Cleopatra, who rolled herself up in one. And Attagenus unicolor is the black carpet beetle. - Alan

Also Rob.

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Which image is the odd one out?

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Answered by Mark, at the first time of asking and now also by Simon.

By the way, the bloke with the pipe isn't Gregory Peck.

Solved by Graybags and Zack

Mike

superimposing similar hues

putting the ball in your own net

a welcoming conflagration

What is the link?

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What's the connection?

Neal

Answered by:

Venky, Graybags, Don, Mike, Jeanluc, David Brain, gkar68, Neal, Zack and Joshua Kreitzer

Since A conceded no goals, then all of M's and C's goals came in the M - C match, which had to be M 4, C 2.

Since C drew one match (and lost to M), it had to be the match against A, and as C did not score against A, it was, as the results announcer used to put it on BBC World Service when the pools panel decided a match with this result, a "no-score draw".

As A scored 3 goals total and conceded none against M, that match had to be A 3, M 0.

Results:

M 4, C 2;

A 3, M 0;

A 0, C 0.

If there's still a smartarse bonus, notice that "M won only one match" was not necessary to come up with the unique solution.

- Don Del Grande

Alan

Pre-migration activities:

* Lounging in the silk sheets * Signing anti-proliferation treaty * Challenging Princess Caroline to a Canadian carrom-like game * Instituting the three-day weekend * Giving advice to the (then) Presidents of the U.S. and Russia * Instituting filled-pastries-for-newborns program

Post-migration jobs:

* Ice maintenance, Toronto Maple Leafs * Grounds maintenance, Toronto Blue Jays * Cook, pizza restaurant

Who was I?

Answered by Jeanluc and Patrick

Zack

Question withdrawn.

What do these songs all have in common?

"Jesus He Knows Me" - Genesis "Life Stinks" - Pere Ubu "Into The Valley" - The Skids "Modern Love" - David Bowie "Into The Groove" - Madonna "Kill Your Sons" - Lou Reed

Andrew Levine

Why does treason never prosper?

Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Sir John Harington 1561- 1612 English writer and courtier Epigrams (1618) bk. 4, no. 5

Graybags, Alan, Zack, David Brain, Joshua Kreitzer, Lieven Marchand.

Question withdrawn

What 6 sided object gave the world one of the greatest “famous last words” stories?

Which soccer player played for Manchester City, Manchester United, his country and Torino?

Denis Law

Venky:

Graybags, Jack and Alan.

How accurate do you need to be at throwing darts (expressed as degrees +/-) before it is becomes worthwhile to aim at treble 20 when attempting to score the maximum possible score with three darts?

Come on, have a go. I'll need a detailed explanation. I had a discussion with Graybags about this one:

How can you link Simon and Garfunkel to a cartoon within a cartoon?

Alan, Jeanluc, Joshua Kreitzer, Neal, Venky

He looked out to see the snow was deep and crisp and even, but in which kingdom?

Venky, Graybags, David Brain, Alan, Jeanluc, Lady of the Brach, Joshua Kreitzer, Neal, Lieven Marchand

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Who painted this scene?

Les Glaneunes (The Gleaners) by Jean-Francois Millet

Alan, Zack, Lieven Marchand and NealNeal's wifewife.

Which US President claimed to know only two tunes, and one title?

“I only know two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle' and the other isn't.”

Ulysses S. Grant.

Venky, Alan, Joshua Kreitzer, Lieven Marchand, Neal

Honoré de Balzac wished to be so famous that he could perform which activity in society?

What is this car?

Also answered by Graybags, also at the second attempt.

Where in the world is this?

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Tel Aviv

Mark, Alan, gkar68, David Brain, Zack, Joshua Kreitzer

Which woman compared her purity to an appropriately fallen precipitation?

I think I have an answer for question 21. I'm going to say Tallulah Bankhead: "I'm as pure as the driven slush." --John Plasket

Mae West's quote was actually “I used to be snow white but I drifted.” Actress Tallulah Bankhead, however, is supposed to have said “I'm as pure as the driven slush.” - Todd Dashoff

Andrea and Russ Perry Jr also suggested the Mae West quote. I was looking for Tallulah Bankhead but they both fit equally well.

Using standard deviation, find the odd one out:

- Burundi - Georgia - Honduras - Jamaica - Laos - Macedonia - Thailand

Alan

Which Scottish town is noted for supplying virgins by the dozen, twice over?

Four & twenty virgins came down from Inverness,

And when the ball was over there was four and twenty less.

* Lounging in the silk sheets
* Signing anti-proliferation treaty
* Challenging Princess Caroline to a Canadian carrom-like game
* Instituting the three-day weekend
* Giving advice to the (then) Presidents of the U.S. and Russia
* Instituting filled-pastries-for-newborns program

* Ice maintenance, Toronto Maple Leafs
* Grounds maintenance, Toronto Blue Jays
* Cook, pizza restaurant

"Jesus He Knows Me" - Genesis
"Life Stinks" - Pere Ubu
"Into The Valley" - The Skids
"Modern Love" - David Bowie
"Into The Groove" - Madonna
"Kill Your Sons" - Lou Reed

Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Sir John Harington 1561- 1612 English writer and courtier
Epigrams (1618) bk. 4, no. 5

- Burundi
- Georgia
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Laos
- Macedonia
- Thailand