The latest Sunday Puzzle from NPR! Name the American TV shows from the past and today!

Every answer today is the name of a popular TV show, past or present, whose one-word name rhymes with the word I give you. (This Sunday Puzzle might be easy to Americans who have spent most of their lives, enjoying American TV shows. Although this batch of quiz exclusively focuses on American TV shows, give it a try!)

Ex. Melon --> ELLEN

 

1. Bends

2. Piers

3. Crash

4. Panics

5. Redwood

6. Blouse

7. Cargo

8. Blips

9. Maxi

10. Coda

11. Clawed

12. Brooch

13. Frost

14. Palace

 

Answer Keys

    1.   Friends

    2.   Cheers

    3.   MASH

    4.   Mannix

    5.   Deadwood

    6.   House

    7.   Wells Fargo

    8.   Chips

    9.   Taxi

   10. Rhoda

   11. Maude

   12. Coach

   13. Lost

   14. Dallas

Find compound words!

You are given three words, starting with A, B, and C. Give me a fourth worth that can precede each of mine to complete a compound word or a familiar two-word phrase.

Example: Ant / Breast / Cross --> RED (red ant, redbreast, Red Cross)

[3-letter answers:]

1. Age / Bucket / Cream

2. Air / Button / Chocolate

 

[4-letter answers:]

3. Alarm / Bell / Code

4. Affair / Bite / Child

 

[5-letter answers:]

5. Airplane / Back / Clip

6. Arrest / Boat / Committee

7. Apple / Bar / Cane

8. Age / Bar / Craft                           

 

Answer Keys

-      ** 3-letter answers

1. 1.  ice  (ice age/ ice bucket/ ice cream)

    2.  hot (hot air/ hot bspacutton/ hot chocolate)

 

** 4-letter answers

    3.  fire (fire alarm/ fire bell/ fire code)

    4.  love (love affair/ love bite/ love child)

**5-letter answers 

    5.  paper (paper airplane/ paper back/ paper clip)

    6.  house (house arrest/ house boat/ house committee)

    7.  candy (candy apple/ candy bar/candy cane)

    8.  space (space age/ space bar/ space craft)

Happy Father's Day! 2022

Happy Father’s Day!

Father’s Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. A customary day for the celebration of fatherhood in Catholic Europe is known to date back to at least the Middle Ages, and it is observed on March 19, as the feast day of Saint Joseph, who is referred to as the fatherly Nutritor Domini meaning “Nourisher of the Lord” in Catholicism. This celebration was brought to the Americas by the Spanish and Portuguese.

 

Let us share some quotes on fatherhood today. Happy father’s day to all dads in the world.

 

“Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”…Barack Obama

 

“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it.”….Clarens Buddington Kellas

 

“One father is more than hundred schoolmasters.”….George Herbert

 

“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers and singers of song.” ….Unknown

 

““It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” —Anne Sexton

“[My father] has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.” …Chelsea Clinton

 

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” ….Charles Wadworth

SUNDAY PUZZLE from NPR! Find the titles of Horror Flicks!

 Are you a big fan of horror films? Summer is the good time to enjoy horror flicks at night. 

Every answer today is the name of a classic horror film or thriller. I'll give you anagrams of the titles. You name the films.

 

Ex. WAS --> Saw

1. DUAL CAR

2. LONE WHALE

3. MR. CASE

4. RACIER

5. SALINE

6. GETS POLITER

7. TOE TUG (2 words)

 

Answer Keys

    1.  DRACULA

    2.  HALLOWEEN

    3.  SCREAM

    4.  CARRIE

    5.  ALIENS

    6.  POLTERGEIST

    7.  GET OUT

The latest NPR Sunday Puzzle aired today! Find the hidden capital cities in sentences!

Read out loud the following sentences. Each conceals the name of a world capital phonetically (NOT spelling-wise) somewhere within it.

 

Example: Have you heard the new eBay jingle? --> BEIJING

 

1. Is everyone at the mosque obeying he rules?

2. Show me the new saddlebag daddy bought.

3. We knew deli-made sandwiches would be better than home-made ones.

4. Three ninja cart away hundreds of swords.

5. A dog and a cat — man, do they fight!

6. Is the twist-tie paper or plastic?

7. Park rangers wonder — can bear attacks harm humans?

8. I remember Lyndon Johnson

9. You can't compare Islamic and Hindu traditions.

10. At clown school Clarabelle graded all the other students.

11. The racing enthusiast wanted a NASCAR tombstone.

 

Answer Keys

1.  Moskow (Mosque obeying)

2.  Bagdad (saddlebag daddy)

3.  New Delhi (knew deli-made)

4.  Jakarta (ninja cart away)

5.  Kathmandu (cat man, do)

6.  Taipei (twist-tie paper)

7.  Canberra (can bear attacks)

8.  Berlin (remember Lyndon)

9.  Paris (compare Islamic)

10.              Belgrade (Clarabelle graded)

11.              Khartum (NASCAR tombstone)