Saturday, August 27, 2011

Air Australia -- Quiz Quilt 241 Solution

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SELESOn April 30, a fanatical Steffi Graf fan named Guenter Parche stabbed Monica Seles just below the shoulder blade during a changeover.
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ALIBI'A' Is for Alibi began the alphabetical sequence in 1982, and 'U' Is for Undertow was book number twenty-one in 2007.
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THOMSONEnglish physicist Joseph John Thomson won the 1906 Nobel Prize for his work.
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NIXONTricky Dick, Richard Nixon, served in the South Pacific, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and mastering the game of poker to the tune of nearly $10,000 in winnings along the way.
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ADAMSBryan Adams's single reached the top on June 3, 1995 and stayed there a month.
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QCPQ had been official until 1994 but also refers to a local political party.

Quiz Quilt Answer: QANTAS (First letters going up)

Qantas Airways Limited, whose name original stood for Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services, is the national airline of Australia.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Air Australia -- Quiz Quilt 241 Puzzle

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What top-ranked female tennis player was stabbed in the back during a match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
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What does the letter 'A' stand for in the first novel in Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone detective series?
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What scientist discovered the electron in 1897?
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Which U.S. President had been an operations officer of a Navy air transport unit in World War II?
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What singer asked, "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" and was answered by a #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts?
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What is the postal abbreviation for the Canadian province of Quebec?

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Laundry Limiter -- Quiz Quilt 240 Solution

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CARVERBooker T. Washington, who fifteen years earlier had opened the school now known as Tuskegee University, invited George Washington Carver to accept the post.
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ENDOCRINEGlands that secrete via a duct are exocrine.
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SHRIMPHarold von Braunhut began selling his Ocean View tanks for observing the brine shrimp creatures, scientifically known as Artemia salina, in 1957.
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SPAMThe canned meat contains pork, ham, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite.
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SHULAFormer defensive back Don Shula amassed a career record of 347-173-6 and collected two Super Bowl rings.
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PLUTARCHThe latter examined the lives of 23 pairs of similar Romans and Greeks plus four unmatched biographies.

Quiz Quilt Answer: HAMPER (Last letters going up)

A hamper is a container for dirty laundry, and to hamper something means to restrict it in some way.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Laundry Limiter -- Quiz Quilt 240 Puzzle

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Who became the director of Agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute in 1896?
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What term refers to the major ductless human glands?
Geography
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What type of animal is a sea monkey?
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What American food has been used for sculptures, honored by haiku, and made into sushi called kimpap by South Koreans?
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What Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins coach won more games than any other coach in NFL history?
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What Greek biographer wrote Moralia and Parallel Lives?

Saturday, August 13, 2011

One A-Whey from Steeds -- Quiz Quilt 239 Solution

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CATSAndrew Lloyd Webber composed the tunes for the 1982 play.
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LOUISJoe Louis, the son of a cotton picker, fought for the championship 27 times, including a record 25 successful title defenses.
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DEFOEEnglish novelist Daniel Defoe was born as Daniel Foe in 1660.
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ALFREDAlfred the Great was the only British monarch dubbed "the Great" for his successful defense against Viking invaders.
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STEAMBOATThe hot spring in Yellowstone National Park can shoot scalding water 400 feet into the air.
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GATESBill Gates denies the quote, but in 1995 he definitely claimed, "There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed."

Quiz Quilt Answer: TUFFET (Third letters)

Advancing each of the letters of "steeds" in the alphabet by one position ("one away"), gets you "tuffet", where Little Miss Muffet sat eating her curds and whey.

Friday, August 12, 2011

One A-Whey from Steeds -- Quiz Quilt 239 Puzzle

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What musical does the song "Memory" come from?
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What heavyweight boxer had the most career title fights?
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What author coined the term "man Friday"?
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Who was the ruler of England from A.D. 871 to 899 who had his scholars begin writing The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?
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What is the tallest active geyser in the world?
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What computer company owner supposedly asserted, "640K ought to be enough for anybody"?

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Lens Liquid -- Quiz Quilt 238 Solution

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MUSSELSThey create them about a third as frequently as oysters do.
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BOLINWilliams College alumna Jane Matilda Bolin had been the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School eight years before.
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FELLINIItalian Federico Fellini also wrote the scripts of all three movies.
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SINCLAIRUpton Sinclair's story about the meat packing district in Chicago unleashed a storm of public indignation in 1906 and spurred Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act later in the year.
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AORTAThe vessel leading from the left ventricle of the heart is about one inch in diameter in adults.
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KINGSThe Sacramento Kings went 27-23 in the lockout-shortened season before losing a first-round playoff series to the Utah Jazz.

Quiz Quilt Answer: SALINE (Fifth letters going up)

Saline, a diluted solution of approximately nine grams of sodium chloride per liter of water, is commonly used to clean, lubricate, and store contact lenses.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Lens Liquid -- Quiz Quilt 238 Puzzle

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What shellfish besides oysters produces pearls the most often?
History
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Who became the first black female judge in the U.S. when Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia appointed her judge of the Domestic Relations Court in 1939?
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Who was the director of And the Ship Sails On, La Dolce Vita, and ?
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What novelist described dangerous, unsanitary, meat-packing operations in The Jungle in 1906?
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What is the widest artery in the human body?
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In 1998-99, which NBA team had its first winning season in sixteen years?