Trivia Why's

Adios Address -- Quiz Quilt 250 Solution

2011-10-29T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Literature & Arts	FARLEY	A movie version of Walter Farley's story about Alec Ramsey and an Arabian horse was released in 1979.
Math & Science	G	Yellow stars have a temperature from 8,500° to 10,000° Fahrenheit. The Sun is a G2 main-sequence star.
Entertainment & Food	PUZO	Danny Aiello played Don Domenico Clericuzio in the 1997 movie adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel, which was not a sequel of The Godfather.
Sports & Games	BRAZIL	Emmo was born in Sao Paulo on December 12, 1946 and moved to Europe to race in 1969.
History & Government	PERU	Over thirty square miles of the area is now dangerously littered with an estimated 150,000 mines.
Geography & Nature	PORTUGUESE	They were former Portuguese colonies in and off the coast of Africa.

Quiz Quilt Answer: EULOGY (Last letters going up)

A eulogy is a farewell address in honor of a deceased person.

Adios Address -- Quiz Quilt 250 Puzzle

2011-10-28T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Literature & Arts	What author shipwrecked a boy with The Black Stallion in 1941?
Math & Science	In the Morgan-Keenan spectral classification, what single-letter class of stars includes the Sun?
Entertainment & Food	Who was the author of The Last Don in 1996?
Sports & Games	What country does race car driver Emerson Fittipaldi come from?
History & Government	What country fought Ecuador over a disputed border in the Cordillera del Condor in 1995?
Geography & Nature	What is the main language spoken in Angola, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau?

Car, Pool, or Sticker -- Quiz Quilt 249 Solution

2011-10-22T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Entertainment & Food	ROCKWELL	In 2000, Darva Conger accepted Rick Rockwell's proposal, but shortly after their honeymoon, she had the marriage annulled.
Geography & Nature	PEARY	Robert Edwin Peary had learned from his previous Arctic expeditions to dress in furs like the Inuit and to employ a system of support teams and supply caches.
Sports & Games	EXPOS	After a quarter century with the Montreal Expos franchise, the orange fuzzball did not move with the team to Washington, D.C., and the Montreal Canadiens adopted him beginning with the 2005-06 season.
Literature & Arts	BLUME	Judy Blume has won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for young adult literature and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Math & Science	URANUS	Venus is the last.
History & Government	COLUMBUS	"Discovery of the New World" was issued in 1893, just after the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first Atlantic crossing.

Quiz Quilt Answer: BUMPER (Diagonally from the bottom to the top left)

The word "bumper" can be added in front to get "bumper car", "bumper pool", and "bumper sticker".

Car, Pool, or Sticker -- Quiz Quilt 249 Puzzle

2011-10-21T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What groom performed stand up comedy before he starred in Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?
Geography & Nature	What American explorer is credited with discovering the North Pole on April 6, 1909?
Sports & Games	Which Major League Baseball team's mascot was called Youppie?
Literature & Arts	What author entertained children with "Superfudge", "Tiger Eyes", and "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing"?
Math & Science	What is the second to last planet in the solar system in alphabetical order?
History & Government	Who was honored on the first U.S. commemorative stamp?

Double Triple King -- Quiz Quilt 248 Solution

2011-10-15T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Math & Science	ALDRIN	Born as Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr. on January 20, 1930, he later officially changed his first name to Buzz, the nickname his sister gave him.
Sports & Games	GRASS	The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club currently uses rye, although a combination of rye and fescue was employed until recently.
Literature & Arts	MACDUFF	Macbeth misunderstood the prophecy that he could not be killed by a "man of woman born", as Macduff had arrived in the world through a Caesarean section.
Geography & Nature	ONTARIO	With the Hudson Bay on its north side, the province is sandwiched by water.
Entertainment & Food	RIKER	Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes (as Commander William Riker) played the pair from 1987 to 1994.
History & Government	JOHNSON	Federal District Judge Sarah Hughes swore Lyndon Johnson in aboard the presidential airplane on November 22, 1963.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ARCARO (Diagonally)

Eddie Arcaro was the only jockey to win thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown twice, aboard Whirlaway in 1941 and aboard Citation in 1948.

Double Triple King -- Quiz Quilt 248 Puzzle

2011-10-14T23:01:00.000-05:00

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Math & Science	What astronaut was the pilot of Gemini 12 and the second person to walk on the moon?
Sports & Games	What general kind of surface is used for the tennis courts at Wimbledon?
Literature & Arts	What Shakespeare character murdered Macbeth?
Geography & Nature	What is the only Canadian province that borders the Great Lakes?
Entertainment & Food	Who was Captain Jean-Luc Picard's right hand man on Star Trek: The Next Generation?
History & Government	Who was the first U.S. President sworn in by a woman?

Backcheck -- Quiz Quilt 247 Solution

2011-10-08T23:00:00.000-05:00

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History & Government	BOLIVAR	Bolivia was named for Simon Bolivar.
Sports & Games	DIPHTHERIA	The annual dog sled race is named for a ghost town on the route.
Entertainment & Food	COPACABANA	The musical appeared destined for Broadway in 2002 but never made it.
Math & Science	PANCREAS	The pancreas is part of the abdomen and is located behind the stomach.
Literature & Arts	HAMMETT	Gold and jewels are hidden in the black statue. Dashiell's Hammett story first appeared as a five-part serial in Black Mask magazine from September 1929 to January 1930.
Geography & Nature	GIRAFFE$	Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus classified the tall mammal as Giraffa camelopardalis in 1758.

Quiz Quilt Answer: REBATE (Seventh letters)

A rebate is usually a check you get back after purchasing an item and mailing in a receipt, UPC symbol, and a rebate form.

Backcheck -- Quiz Quilt 247 Puzzle

2011-10-07T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

History & Government	What Venezuelan revolutionary leader and statesman was known as El Libertador?
Sports & Games	What 1925 epidemic required the transport of medical supplies, providing the basis for the Iditarod?
Entertainment & Food	What 1978 Barry Manilow song became a made-for-TV musical in 1985 and a full-scale Atlantic City show in 1994?
Math & Science	What body part's name comes from the Greek for "all flesh"?
Literature & Arts	What author released The Maltese Falcon in 1930 and turned it into a 1931 movie starring Ricardo Cortez and a 1941 movie with Humphrey Bogart?
Geography & Nature	What animal was once called a camelopard because it was thought to be a cross between a camel and a leopard?

Ham Hater's Heftier Handle -- Quiz Quilt 246 Solution

2011-10-01T23:00:00.000-05:00

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History & Government	DRACHMA	The name was also used for the Greek currency from 1832 until 1999.
Geography & Nature	ALASKA	"North to the Future" became its official motto in 1967.
Literature & Arts	GENESIS	God was addressing Adam in chapter 3, verse 19.
Math & Science	ARCHIMEDES	Equal weights of gold and the undetermined substance will displace equal amounts of water.
Entertainment & Food	MARSHALL	After several big hit television series, Garry Marshall directed his first movie, the soap opera spoof Young Doctors in Love, in 1982.
Sports & Games	BRUINS	The Boston Bruins franchise joined the league in 1924.

Quiz Quilt Answer: SAMIAM (Sixth letters going up)

Sam, usually referred to as Sam-I-am, is the antagonistic protagonist of Dr. Seuss's classic "Green Eggs and Ham". Despite declaring his dislike and disdain, he discovers the dish is delicious.

Ham Hater's Heftier Handle -- Quiz Quilt 246 Puzzle

2011-09-30T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

History & Government	What ancient Greek silver coin was equal to six obols?
Geography & Nature	What was the last U.S. state without a state motto?
Literature & Arts	In what book in the Old Testament does the phrase "Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return" appear?
Math & Science	What Greek mathematician ran home from a bath naked shouting "Eureka!" when he figured out how to determine if gold was pure?
Entertainment & Food	What TV director also handled the movies Overboard, Beaches, and Pretty Woman?
Sports & Games	What was the first NHL hockey team in the U.S.?

A Palindromic Pickup -- Quiz Quilt 245 Solution

2011-09-24T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Literature & Arts	MONET	As a young boy, Claude Monet received his first lessons from Eugene Boudin and later enrolled in a university art course after his aunt managed to withdraw him from the army.
Sports & Games	GIBSON	Pioneer Althea Gibson defeated Angela Mortimer 6-0, 12-10 in the 1956 French Open final after boxers Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson and others had paid her airfare to get to the tournament.
Entertainment & Food	NIMOY	Leonard Nimoy's acting debut had occurred a year earlier with a bit part in Queen For a Day.
Math & Science	ZIRCONIUM	The grayish-white metal is popularly known for its use in cubic zirconia gems, which are made from zirconium oxide.
History & Government	LUSITANIA	The death of 1,189 people helped provoke the U.S. into joining World War I.
Geography & Nature	CHINA	Both nations measure just over 3.7 million square miles, with the U.S. less than half a percent larger. The difference is coincidentally very close to the area of Taiwan.

Quiz Quilt Answer: TOYOTA (Fifth letters)

"A Toyota" is a palindrome, and the Japanese company makes pickup trucks.

A Palindromic Pickup -- Quiz Quilt 245 Puzzle

2011-09-23T23:01:00.000-05:00

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Literature & Arts	What French painter's works include Women in the Garden and Water Lilies?
Sports & Games	Who was the first African-American to win a Grand Slam tennis event?
Entertainment & Food	What Star Trek actor had a small role as a football player while a mule starred in Francis Goes to West Point in 1952?
Math & Science	What is the last chemical element in alphabetical order?
History & Government	What British liner did a German submarine sink off the Irish coast on May 7, 1915?
Geography & Nature	What country is closest in size to the U.S.?

Robbermaid -- Quiz Quilt 244 Solution

2011-09-17T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Entertainment & Food	NEWMAN	Lorne Greene also debuted along with Paul Newman in the movie.
Geography & Nature	JAPAN	Although the sun flag dates back as a far as the 13th century, it was not officially adopted by the country until August 13, 1999.
History & Government	WARREN	Former California governor Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice from 1953 to 1969.
Sports & Games	BOXING	The word "cavalcade" originally meant a procession of people on horseback.
Literature & Arts	DANA	Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s book, whose title refers to his living quarters at the front of the ship, grew from a diary he kept on a voyage he made to California as a sailor.
Math & Science	FRANKLIN	Jack-of-all-trades Benjamin Franklin was actually just joking in his 1784 letter to the editor of the Journal of Paris.

Quiz Quilt Answer: MARIAN (Fourth letters)

Maid Marian was Robin Hood's significant other.

Robbermaid -- Quiz Quilt 244 Puzzle

2011-09-16T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What actor debuted in The Silver Chalice in 1954 but later took out an ad in Variety to apologize for the film?
Geography & Nature	What country has a flag consisting of a red circle with a white background?
History & Government	What Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court investigated John F. Kennedy's assassination?
Sports & Games	What was the only sport that television's Cavalcade of Sports presented from 1944 to 1960?
Literature & Arts	What author recounted his Two Days Before the Mast in 1840?
Math & Science	What American supposedly first proposed daylight saving time in Paris in the 18th century?

Oily on Olympus -- Quiz Quilt 243 Solution

2011-09-10T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Entertainment & Food	JAG	He played Lieutenant Harmon Rabb, Jr. in the pilot and was later promoted to Commander in the series.
Sports & Games	GARNER	Infielder Phil Garner was the third pick in the 1971 amateur draft by the Oakland A's, and he played four seasons with them before helping the Pittsburgh Pirates win the 1979 World Series.
Geography & Nature	QUECHUA	Over 13% of Peruvians and almost ten million South Americans speak the American Indian language.
Math & Science	QUARKS	Murray Gell-Mann's name for the subatomic particles stuck, while George Zweig's "aces" became a footnote in history.
History & Government	BUSH	George "Poppy" Bush partnered with John Overbey to create the Bush-Overbey Oil Development Company in 1950.
Literature & Arts	KEY	Francis Scott Key's poem, "The Defense of Fort McHenry", was later set to composer John Stafford Smith's tune "Anacreon in Heaven".

Quiz Quilt Answer: GREASY (Third letters)

"Oily" is a synonym for "greasy", and the most famous Mt. Olympus is the tallest mountain located in Greece ("Greece-y").

Oily on Olympus -- Quiz Quilt 243 Puzzle

2011-09-09T23:01:00.000-05:00

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Entertainment & Food	What TV series' 1995 pilot featured David James Elliott as an ex-pilot lawyer?
Sports & Games	What Major League Baseball player and manager was known as Scrap Iron?
Geography & Nature	After Spanish, what is most popular language of Peru?
Math & Science	What is the physics term for the elementary particles, with names like strange and charm, that are the basic constituents of baryons?
History & Government	Which U.S. President cofounded an oil company?
Literature & Arts	What poet wrote the words to the "Star-Spangled Banner" during the War of 1812?

Weak Theater Anagram -- Quiz Quilt 242 Solution

2011-09-03T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Geography & Nature	ZAMBIA	The nation had been a British protectorate since 1923.
History & Government	SMITH	It is also the most popular surname in the United States and Australia.
Entertainment & Food	LEE	Director Spike Lee was born as Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia but grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
Sports & Games	ENRON	The energy corporation declared bankruptcy amid a major accounting scandal only a year later. The field is now called Minute Maid Park.
Literature & Arts	NIN	Anais Nin's 1969 collection of erotic short stories was turned into a Zalman King movie in 1995.
Math & Science	SCURVY	About three months without fruits and vegetables will produce symptoms.

Quiz Quilt Answer: CINEMA (Second letters going up)

"Anemic" means "weak" and anagrams to "cinema", which is a synonym of "theater".

Weak Theater Anagram -- Quiz Quilt 242 Puzzle

2011-09-02T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Geography & Nature	What country was known as Northern Rhodesia until 1964?
History & Government	What is the most common last name in the U.K.?
Entertainment & Food	What African-American film-maker explored racism and other issues in movies like Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X?
Sports & Games	What company paid $100 million for the rights to name the Houston Astros home ballpark for thirty years starting in 2000?
Literature & Arts	Who was the author of Delta of Venus?
Math & Science	What disease is marked by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and bleeding and is caused by a lack of ascorbic acid?

Air Australia -- Quiz Quilt 241 Solution

2011-08-27T23:00:00.001-05:00

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Sports & Games	SELES	On April 30, a fanatical Steffi Graf fan named Guenter Parche stabbed Monica Seles just below the shoulder blade during a changeover.
Literature & Arts	ALIBI	'A' Is for Alibi began the alphabetical sequence in 1982, and 'U' Is for Undertow was book number twenty-one in 2007.
Math & Science	THOMSON	English physicist Joseph John Thomson won the 1906 Nobel Prize for his work.
History & Government	NIXON	Tricky 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.
Entertainment & Food	ADAMS	Bryan Adams's single reached the top on June 3, 1995 and stayed there a month.
Geography & Nature	QC	PQ 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.

Air Australia -- Quiz Quilt 241 Puzzle

2011-08-26T23:01:00.000-05:00

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

Laundry Limiter -- Quiz Quilt 240 Solution

2011-08-20T23:00:00.000-05:00

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History & Government	CARVER	Booker T. Washington, who fifteen years earlier had opened the school now known as Tuskegee University, invited George Washington Carver to accept the post.
Math & Science	ENDOCRINE	Glands that secrete via a duct are exocrine.
Geography & Nature	SHRIMP	Harold von Braunhut began selling his Ocean View tanks for observing the brine shrimp creatures, scientifically known as Artemia salina, in 1957.
Entertainment & Food	SPAM	The canned meat contains pork, ham, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite.
Sports & Games	SHULA	Former defensive back Don Shula amassed a career record of 347-173-6 and collected two Super Bowl rings.
Literature & Arts	PLUTARCH	The 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.

Laundry Limiter -- Quiz Quilt 240 Puzzle

2011-08-19T23:01:00.000-05:00

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

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

2011-08-13T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Entertainment & Food	CATS	Andrew Lloyd Webber composed the tunes for the 1982 play.
Sports & Games	LOUIS	Joe Louis, the son of a cotton picker, fought for the championship 27 times, including a record 25 successful title defenses.
Literature & Arts	DEFOE	English novelist Daniel Defoe was born as Daniel Foe in 1660.
History & Government	ALFRED	Alfred the Great was the only British monarch dubbed "the Great" for his successful defense against Viking invaders.
Geography & Nature	STEAMBOAT	The hot spring in Yellowstone National Park can shoot scalding water 400 feet into the air.
Math & Science	GATES	Bill 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.

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

2011-08-12T23:01:00.000-05:00

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

Lens Liquid -- Quiz Quilt 238 Solution

2011-08-06T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Geography & Nature	MUSSELS	They create them about a third as frequently as oysters do.
History & Government	BOLIN	Williams College alumna Jane Matilda Bolin had been the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School eight years before.
Entertainment & Food	FELLINI	Italian Federico Fellini also wrote the scripts of all three movies.
Literature & Arts	SINCLAIR	Upton 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.
Math & Science	AORTA	The vessel leading from the left ventricle of the heart is about one inch in diameter in adults.
Sports & Games	KINGS	The 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.

Lens Liquid -- Quiz Quilt 238 Puzzle

2011-08-05T23:01:00.000-05:00

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Geography & Nature	What shellfish besides oysters produces pearls the most often?
History & Government	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?
Entertainment & Food	Who was the director of And the Ship Sails On, La Dolce Vita, and 8½?
Literature & Arts	What novelist described dangerous, unsanitary, meat-packing operations in The Jungle in 1906?
Math & Science	What is the widest artery in the human body?
Sports & Games	In 1998-99, which NBA team had its first winning season in sixteen years?

Dull Drilling -- Quiz Quilt 237 Solution

2011-07-30T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Entertainment & Food	BOYD	Former model Patti Boyd was married at the time but would get divorced a year later and marry Clapton in 1979.
Geography & Nature	MONROVIA	The city was renamed in 1824 for U.S. President James Monroe, who supported sending freed slaves to the country.
Literature & Arts	KEROUAC	Beat Movement author Jack Kerouac typed the novel as one, single-spaced, marginless paragraph on 250 continuous feet of computer paper.
Math & Science	SETI	The Cornell University scientist kicked off Project Ozma in West Virginia, which led to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
History & Government	LENIN	After Nicholas II was overthrown in April, Nikolai Lenin led a failed workers' rebellion in July and fled to Finland before returning successfully in October.
Sports & Games	NITROGEN	Compressed nitrogen holds less moisture than compressed air and consequently expands less as its temperature rises.

Quiz Quilt Answer: BORING (Diagonally)

"Boring" can mean both "uninteresting" and "digging a hole in".

Dull Drilling -- Quiz Quilt 237 Puzzle

2011-07-29T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What singer inspired Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight"?
Geography & Nature	What is Liberia's capital, formerly known as Christopolis?
Literature & Arts	What author took readers On the Road in 1957?
Math & Science	What current scientific program did American astronomer Frank Drake begin in 1960?
History & Government	What Russian communist led the Bolsheviks to power in 1917?
Sports & Games	What gas is generally used to fill the tires of stock cars?

Clean Cheese for Children -- Quiz Quilt 236 Solution

2011-07-23T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Entertainment & Food	RINGWALD	Brat Packer Molly Ringwald played Molly Parker on the television show from 1979 to 1980.
Math & Science	PRIESTLEY	Joseph Priestley created his "mephitic julep" ("foul-smelling drink") in 1767 to prevent scurvy on long voyages, an ironic footnote in the history of soft drinks.
Sports & Games	WASHINGTON	It was the only Grand Slam final of a career during which MaliVai Washington won four titles and ascended to a #11 ranking.
History & Government	VIRGINIA	The future state governor was addressing the Virginia Provincial Convention at St. John's Church in Richmond.
Geography & Nature	SINGAPORE	The nation had over 18,000 people per square mile in 2009, second in the world behind Monaco.
Literature & Arts	COLERIDGE	In Samuel Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", the sailor is surrounded by undrinkable saltwater.

Quiz Quilt Answer: GRATED (Eighth letters going up)

Cheese can be grated and movies can be G-rated.

Clean Cheese for Children -- Quiz Quilt 236 Puzzle

2011-07-22T23:01:00.000-05:00

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Entertainment & Food	What actress from The Breakfast Club was in the original Facts of Life cast?
Math & Science	What English chemist invented carbonated water?
Sports & Games	What U.S. tennis player unexpectedly reached the Wimbledon men's final in 1996 before succumbing to Richard Krajicek?
History & Government	In which colony did Patrick Henry deliver his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech on March 23, 1775?
Geography & Nature	What is the most densely populated country in Asia?
Literature & Arts	What poet sighed, "Water, water, everywhere, Nor any a drop to drink"?

Far East Envelope -- Quiz Quilt 235 Solution

2011-07-16T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Math & Science	GYPSUM	George Hull created the hoax for $2,600 and cashed its fame in for $37,500 from a group that wanted to exhibit it.
Sports & Games	COCHRANE	Hall of Fame catcher Mickey Cochrane batted .320 with the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers from 1925 to 1937.
Entertainment & Food	COLLINS	Phil Collins sang the theme song for Against All Odds, which was a remake of the 1947 movie Out of the Past.
Literature & Arts	HINDUISM	Janmashtami, honoring the birthday of Lord Krishna, is the most important Hindu festival.
History & Government	SANDALS	One of her feet is standing on top of chains.
Geography & Nature	KAMCHATKA	The 180,000-square-mile peninsula is home to 400,000 people.

Quiz Quilt Answer: MANILA (Sixth letters)

Manila is the capital of the Philippines, and manila envelopes were named for the beige-colored hemp originally made from the abaca plant there.

Far East Envelope -- Quiz Quilt 235 Puzzle

2011-07-15T23:01:00.001-05:00

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Math & Science	What material was used to create the fake Cardiff giant, a 10-foot, 3,000-pound, "petrified human being" supposedly "discovered" in New York in 1869?
Sports & Games	For what Major League player did Mickey Mantle's father Mutt name him?
Entertainment & Food	What singer hit the top of the charts with "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" on March 10, 1984?
Literature & Arts	What major religion's Ramana Vami, Janmashtami, and Guru Nanak Jayanti festivals all celebrate birthdays?
History & Government	What does the Statue of Liberty wear on her feet?
Geography & Nature	What is the large, eastern Russian peninsula that figures prominently in the Parker Brothers game Risk?

Lucky 007 Casino -- Quiz Quilt 234 Solution

2011-07-09T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Literature & Arts	HOMER	The Boston-born artist Winslow Homer also produced The Gulf Stream four years later.
History & Government	ANTHONY	Susan B. Anthony's portrait adorns the dollar coin minted from 1979 to 1981 and 1999.
Entertainment & Food	CINDY	The brown bear, inspired by Ed Norton of the Honeymooners and named for Yogi Berra, debuted on The Huckleberry Hound Show in 1958 and soon earned his own program.
Math & Science	TESLA	Serbian-American Nicola Tesla created the induction motor using the rotating magnetic field principle he also developed.
Sports & Games	SEOUL	The Seoul, Korea Olympiad was the first in sixteen years to avoid a major boycott, with only Cuba, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, and North Korea sitting out.
Geography & Nature	GANDER	It can also be called a stag, while a female is either a goose or a dame.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ROYALE (Fifth letters)

"Casino Royale", Ian Fleming's first novel about agent 007 James Bond, hit the big screen as a one-off comedy in 1967 and as a normal action-thriller in 2006.

Lucky 007 Casino -- Quiz Quilt 234 Puzzle

2011-07-08T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Literature & Arts	What American artist painted the Northeaster seascape in 1895?
History & Government	What American leader of the woman suffrage movement was honored by a U.S. coin?
Entertainment & Food	What is the first name of Yogi Bear's girlfriend?
Math & Science	What inventor patented the electric motor in 1888?
Sports & Games	What city hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics?
Geography & Nature	What is a male goose most commonly known as?

Helpful Hard Cover -- Quiz Quilt 233 Solution

2011-07-02T23:00:00.000-05:00

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Sports & Games	GENERALS	The running back played for the New Jersey Generals for three seasons before joining the NFL when the USFL folded.
Math & Science	HYDROGEN	Scientists estimate that it makes up from 75% to 90% of all normal matter.
History & Government	BELGIUM	In 1967, the political headquarters moved to Brussels and the military headquarters to Mons. They had both been based in France.
Geography & Nature	MOLDOVA	The country, formerly called Moldavia, became independent when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Entertainment & Food	HOUSTON	The following year, Whitney Houston had their only child, daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown.
Literature & Arts	FABERGE	Tsar Alexander III first asked Peter Carl Faberge to create a birthday gift for his wife in 1885, and it remained an annual tradition until 1917.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ENAMEL (Seventh letters going up)

Enamel can refer to several different types of hard coatings, including paint and the top of the crown of a tooth.

Helpful Hard Cover -- Quiz Quilt 233 Puzzle

2011-07-01T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Sports & Games	Which USFL team signed Herschel Walker to a 3-year, $5-million contract on February 23, 1983?
Math & Science	What is the most common chemical element in the universe?
History & Government	In what country are NATO's headquarters located?
Geography & Nature	What landlocked country is sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine?
Entertainment & Food	What singer wed Bobby Brown on July 18, 1992?
Literature & Arts	What jeweler created richly enameled Easter eggs for the Russian royal family in the early 1900s?

Famous Furniture Furnisher -- Quiz Quilt 232 Solution

2011-06-25T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Geography & Nature	GREENWICH	England's Royal Greenwich Observatory, built for King Charles II in 1675, serves as the official marker.
Entertainment & Food	SHANIA	Shania Twain's first name is Ojibwa Indian for "I'm on my way".
History & Government	ACTON	John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton was a 19th-century English historian.
Math & Science	MUMPS	The viral disease, which causes inflammation of the parotid glands, was a common childhood malady before
Literature & Arts	ABRAHAM	The 100-year-old chuckled when told that his wife Sarah would give birth to a son, so the child was named "he will laugh".
Sports & Games	DEUCE	The French call the second and later deuces "egalite", while they just refer to the first deuce as "quarante a" ("forty-all").

Quiz Quilt Answer: CAPONE (Fourth letters going up)

Legendary American gangster Al Capone masqueraded as a "Used Furniture Dealer" on his business cards.

Famous Furniture Furnisher -- Quiz Quilt 232 Puzzle

2011-06-24T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Geography & Nature	What city serves as ground zero for longitude calculations?
Entertainment & Food	By what first name is country singer Eileen Regina Edwards better known?
History & Government	What Lord asserted, "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely"?
Math & Science	What is the common name of epidemic parotitis, a disease against which vaccination is regularly used?
Literature & Arts	In the Bible, who was Isaac's father?
Sports & Games	What tennis term refers to a tie score at which each side has won three points and can win the game by winning the next two points?

Foreign Floozy -- Quiz Quilt 231 Solution

2011-06-18T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

History & Government	NORIEGA	Manuel Noriega was sentenced to forty years in prison and remains a prisoner of war despite an early release on September 9, 2007.
Literature & Arts	EXCALIBUR	The Lady of the Lake gave the "steel cutter" to him.
Geography & Nature	CANBERRA	The location of the new city had been selected in 1908 to replace Melbourne.
Math & Science	ANGSTROM	The unit was named for Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Angstrom, a pioneer in spectroscopy.
Sports & Games	JAMAICA	Other famous Jamaicans include sprinters Linford Christie and Ben Johnson, singer Bob Marley, and supermodel Naomi Campbell.
Entertainment & Food	REYNOLDS	Former Florida State halfback Burt Reynolds played J.J. McLure in the first two Cannonball Run movies but did not appear in Speed Zone!, the second sequel.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ABROAD (Seventh letters going down)

"Floozy" means prostitute, which was one of the original meanings of "broad" when referring to females.

Foreign Floozy -- Quiz Quilt 231 Puzzle

2011-06-17T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

History & Government	What Panamanian general ousted the civilian president in 1985 and was convicted of drug trafficking by the U.S. in 1992?
Literature & Arts	What was the name of King Arthur's sword?
Geography & Nature	What has been the capital of Australia since 1927?
Math & Science	What unit of length is equal to one tenth of a nanometer?
Sports & Games	What country are basketball player Patrick Ewing and baseball players Chili Davis and Devon White from?
Entertainment & Food	What Cannonball Run actor debuted on the big screen in Angel Baby in 1961?

Short, Stout Subject -- Quiz Quilt 230 Solution

2011-06-11T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

History & Government	TRUMAN	On January 31, 1950, Harry Truman asserted that the U.S. had to "defend itself against any possible aggressor" and ordered the creation of a superbomb.
Math & Science	POPE	Ariel, Umbriel, and Belinda appear in Alexander Pope's 1712 poem "The Rape of the Lock".
Literature & Arts	KIPLING	Rudyard Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West", about the theft of a horse bridging cultural differences, was published in 1889, a year before his first novel, The Light That Failed.
Geography & Nature	KARAKORAM	The peak, also known as Mount Godwin Austen, Dapsang, and Chogo Ri, is the second highest in the world at 28,250 feet.
Entertainment & Food	HUNTER	Robin Williams's character, based on the real-life doctor, earned his nickname by repairing a coffee cup.
Sports & Games	ROSSET	Marc Rosset defeated the equally unheralded Spaniard Jordi Arresse in the five-set final.

Quiz Quilt Answer: TEAPOT (Diagonally from the bottom to the top left)

George Harry Sanders and Clarence Kelley's "The Teapot Song" describes its title object as short and stout. Most children no longer no what stout is (heck, even most adults might think of ale first now), but apparently it was still a common adjective back in 1939.

Short, Stout Subject -- Quiz Quilt 230 Puzzle

2011-06-10T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

History & Government	Which U.S. President instructed the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to develop a hydrogen bomb?
Math & Science	Besides William Shakespeare, for what author's characters are the moons of Uranus named?
Literature & Arts	What author philosophized, "Oh, East is East, and West is West, And never the twain shall meet"?
Geography & Nature	In what mountain range is K2 located?
Entertainment & Food	In the 1998 movie Patch Adams, what was the title character's given first name?
Sports & Games	What Swiss tennis player won an Olympic gold medal in 1992?

Respected Roman & Great Greek God -- Quiz Quilt 229 Solution

2011-06-04T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Geography & Nature	BURMA	The nation gained its independence from the U.K. in 1948 as the Union of Burma.
History & Government	CHAMPLAIN	Lake Champlain in Quebec province, New York, and Vermont was named for Samuel de Champlain.
Math & Science	PLUTO	The dwarf planet's diameter is only about double its satellite Charon's.
Entertainment & Food	FOOTLOOSE	The single was one of six Top 40 hits from the 1984 soundtrack.
Sports & Games	HAMILL	Dorothy Hamill won her Olympic figure skating gold medal in 1976. Yamaguchi won the U.S. Junior Figure Skating Championship in 1988 and teamed with Rudy Galindo for pairs titles in 1986, 1989, and 1990.
Literature & Arts	CARSON	Rachel Carson's research and investigations led directly to the banning of DDT in 1972. The zoologist was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.

Quiz Quilt Answer: APOLLO (Fifth letters)

Apollo was the only major god who had the same name in both Roman and Greek mythology.

Respected Roman & Great Greek God -- Quiz Quilt 229 Puzzle

2011-06-03T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Geography & Nature	Which Southeast Asian country is officially known as the Union of Myanmar?
History & Government	What Frenchman founded the first permanent French colony in North America in Quebec in 1608?
Math & Science	Which planet or dwarf planet in the solar system has a moon closest in size to it?
Entertainment & Food	What movie was Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero" from?
Sports & Games	What figure skater did Kristi Yamaguchi idolize and have a doll of at age 4?
Literature & Arts	What American marine biologist's 1962 book Silent Spring detailed the dangers of insecticides?

Discourser's Disclaimer -- Quiz Quilt 228 Solution

2011-05-28T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Math & Science	COCONUT	The meat is mainly used for extracting coconut oil.
Entertainment & Food	KHAURY	Falsetto singer Herbert Khaury took his stage name from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and was famous for performing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" with his ukulele.
Geography & Nature	ISTANBUL	Nearly thirteen million residents of Istanbul, Turkey straddle the Bosphorus Strait, which separates Europe from Asia.
Sports & Games	ANTLEY	Ant Man Chris Antley almost rode Charismatic to a Triple Crown a decade later, winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness but finishing third in the Belmont Stakes.
Literature & Arts	EMERSON	Famous essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson believed, "The only way to have a friend is to be one".
History & Government	CICERO	In his first speech, Marcus Tullius Cicero exposed his enemy, whom he had just defeated in an election. He spoke again the next day to say that Catiline had fled to join his army, which was later defeated.

Quiz Quilt Answer: IMNSHO (Second letters going up)

In Usenet news posts, text messaging, and other discussions, the abbreviation IMNSHO stands for "in my not so humble opinion".

Discourser's Disclaimer -- Quiz Quilt 228 Puzzle

2011-05-27T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Math & Science	What fruit is dried to make copra?
Entertainment & Food	What was American entertainer Tiny Tim's birth name?
Geography & Nature	What is the only major city that is split between two continents?
Sports & Games	What jockey won at least once on a record 64 consecutive racing days in 1989?
Literature & Arts	On what author's property did Henry David Thoreau live in a crude shack he built himself?
History & Government	What Roman statesman gave four brilliant orations against Catiline in 63 B.C.?

Patrick's Paraplegic Professor -- Quiz Quilt 227 Solution

2011-05-21T23:00:00.001-05:00

Category Answers:

Sports & Games	ICKX	Belgian driver Jacky Ickx took the checkered flag six times between 1969 and 1982, three times teaming with Derek Bell.
Geography & Nature	RHEA	The common rhea is the continent's largest bird, averaging over sixty pounds as an adult.
Literature & Arts	MELVILLE	Herman Melville dedicated the book to his friend and neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, who had convinced him to change the story from a simple whaling tale to an allegorical novel.
History & Government	BLAIR	Singer and guitarist Tony Blair later performed with the band Ugly Rumours while he was a student at St. John's College.
Math & Science	EULER	Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler first used the letter e to denote the basis of the natural logarithm in 1727, over a decade after the constant was discovered.
Entertainment & Food	AYKROYD	Dan Aykroyd, the cofounder of the House of Blues, played a blind man named Roy in the Canadian comedy.

Quiz Quilt Answer: XAVIER (Fourth letters)

In the X-Men comic series, Professor X's full name is Charles Francis Xavier, played by actor Patrick Stewart in the movie versions.

Patrick's Paraplegic Professor -- Quiz Quilt 227 Puzzle

2011-05-20T23:01:00.001-05:00

Category Questions:

Sports & Games	Who won the most 24 Hours of Le Mans races in the 20th century?
Geography & Nature	What flightless, South American bird resembles the ostrich?
Literature & Arts	Who was the author born in New York City whose 1851 novel Moby Dick did not become famous until after his death?
History & Government	What British prime minister was an actor and athlete at Fettes College in Scotland?
Math & Science	For whom was the irrational number e named?
Entertainment & Food	What Saturday Night Live regular starred in the movie Love at First Sight in 1976?

Empty Promise -- Quiz Quilt 226 Solution

2011-05-14T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Geography & Nature	ISTANBUL	The city was known as Byzantium until the rule of Constantine the Great in the 4th century.
Math & Science	HERSCHEL	Astronomer and composer William Herschel used just a prism and a thermometer, noting a temperature increase from the invisible rays just beyond the end of the visible red light.
Literature & Arts	FOUNDATION	The prolific author resumed the series with Foundation's Edge in 1982 and added another sequel and two prequels in the next decade.
Entertainment & Food	MICROSOFT	The Redmond software giant dropped one spot, falling to #3 behind IBM, in 2009.
Sports & Games	CHRISTIE	Linford Christie was the defending champion.
History & Government	ZANZIBAR	The locals surrendered after the British fleet successfully shelled the Sultan's palace on August 27.

Quiz Quilt Answer: REFILL (Eight letters going up)

Some restaurants promise endless refills of certain beverages like coffee and soda as an inexpensive way of attracting customers.

Empty Promise -- Quiz Quilt 226 Puzzle

2011-05-13T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Geography & Nature	What is the current name of the Turkish city once known as Constantinople?
Math & Science	What scientist discovered infrared rays in 1800?
Literature & Arts	What was Isaac Asimov's Hugo Award-winning sci-fi trilogy, published from 1951 to 1953?
Entertainment & Food	What brand name did Business Week rate #2 in value in the world behind Coca-Cola every year from 2000 to 2008?
Sports & Games	What British 100-meter runner false started twice in the 1996 Olympic final and was disqualified?
History & Government	What country lost a war to England in a mere 38 minutes in 1896?

Unclear Initiation -- Quiz Quilt 225 Solution

2011-05-07T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

History & Government	PARAGUAY	The nation split off on May 14, 1811, less than two months before Venezuela did.
Literature & Arts	SLOAN	Walden chaplain Reverend Scot Sloan is also based on Reverend William Sloane Coffin.
Math & Science	ALUMINUM	Humphrey Davy named the element alumium, changed it to aluminum to match its Latin root, and finally settled on aluminium, but not before the U.S. had fixated on his second choice.
Sports & Games	PIAZZA	Drafted in the 62nd round partly as a favor by Tommy Lasorda, ten-time All-Star Mike Piazza accomplished the feat nine straight times from 1995 to 2003.
Geography & Nature	HUNGARY	The forint was once divided into 100 filler, but the smaller unit was discontinued when it became almost worthless.
Entertainment & Food	TOUCH	The album featured "Here Comes the Rain Again", which reached #4 on the pop charts.

Quiz Quilt Answer: HAZING (Fifth letters going up)

Hazing in a humiliating and/or painful way of initiating members into organizations such as fraternities and military institutions, and hazing means the weather has become cloudy.

Unclear Initiation -- Quiz Quilt 225 Puzzle

2011-05-06T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

History & Government	What was the first South American country to gain independence from Spain?
Literature & Arts	What preacher in Doonesbury was partially inspired by the Reverend Scotty McLennan of Tufts University?
Math & Science	What chemical element does not occur isolated in nature and is usually extracted from bauxite?
Sports & Games	What Major League Baseball catcher had the most seasons with 30 home runs?
Geography & Nature	What is the 36,000-square-mile country of nearly ten million people whose currency is the forint?
Entertainment & Food	What 1983 Eurythmics album's cover features Annie Lennox wearing a black mask?

Accented Aggravation -- Quiz Quilt 224 Solution

2011-04-30T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Geography & Nature	BAHAMAS	The archipelago is about forty miles closer than Cuba is.
Entertainment & Food	DETROIT	Berry Gordy, Jr. created the Motor City company in Detroit, Michigan on December 14, 1959.
Literature & Arts	BABAR	The royal pachyderm first appeared in The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant in 1931.
Sports & Games	NASTASE	Temperamental righty Ilie Nastase conquered the U.S. Open in 1972 and the French Open in 1973.
History & Government	MARCOS	Corazon Aquino and the army supporting her chased Ferdinand Marcos out of the country.
Math & Science	GAUSS	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss's "Remarkable Theorem" states that the curvature of a surface can be measured from the surface itself, such as by making calculations from distances and angles.

Quiz Quilt Answer: STRESS (Last letters)

Stress can cause aggravation and a stress is an accent.

Accented Aggravation -- Quiz Quilt 224 Puzzle

2011-04-29T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Geography & Nature	What foreign country is closest to Florida?
Entertainment & Food	In what city was the Motown record label founded?
Literature & Arts	What elephant did Jean de Brunhoff make famous?
Sports & Games	What Romanian tennis player was ranked #1 in the world in 1972 and 1973?
History & Government	Which president and prime minister of the Philippines was forced out for fraud in the 1986 election?
Math & Science	What mathematician, born in Brunswick, Germany in 1777, wrote the theorema egregium?

Bat, Bunny, or Beluga -- Quiz Quilt 223 Solution

2011-04-23T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Sports & Games	MILLER	Sophomore guards Kelly and Coco Miller led the University of Georgia to the Women's Final Four.
Geography & Nature	KAZAKHSTAN	The nation is less than a sixth the size of Russia.
Entertainment & Food	SIMON	All four Neil Simon screenplays were nominated for Oscars, but none of them won.
Literature & Arts	THOMAS	This led to the phrase "doubting Thomas".
Math & Science	ZARYA	The name is Russian for "sunrise".
History & Government	RANDOLPH	Peyton Randolph led the Congress from September 5 to October 21, 1774 and also led the Third Congress in May 1775.

Quiz Quilt Answer: MAMMAL (Diagonally)

Bats, bunnies, and beluga whales are all categorized as mammals in the traditional biological classification scheme.

Bat, Bunny, or Beluga -- Quiz Quilt 223 Puzzle

2011-04-22T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Sports & Games	What basketball-playing twins shared the 1999 Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athletes?
Geography & Nature	What was the second largest country formed by the breakup of the Soviet Union?
Entertainment & Food	Who wrote the scripts for the movies The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl, and California Suite?
Literature & Arts	After the Resurrection, what apostle was invited to touch Jesus's wounds to prove they were real?
Math & Science	What was the first module of the $63 billion international space station launched in November 1998?
History & Government	What Massachusetts town was named after the President of the First Continental Congress?

Earlier Bingo or Battleship Call -- Quiz Quilt 222 Solution

2011-04-16T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Math & Science	RIDE	Californian Sally Ride orbited the Earth on the Challenger space shuttle from June 18 to June 24, 1983.
Literature & Arts	CONRAD	The post-colonial work was Joseph Conrad's first major novel in 1900.
Sports & Games	LENO	Although New York-born comedian Jay Leno does not race cars, he collects and restores antique cars and motorcycles.
History & Government	JEFFERSON	The first American $2 bill in 1862 featured Alexander Hamilton. Though rarely seen in circulation, the currency is still being issued with Thomas Jefferson's face, with the most recent printing in 2006.
Geography & Nature	ROME	Encircled by Rome, Italy, Vatican City is the smallest independent state in the world at only 109 acres and the least populous with under 1,000 residents.
Entertainment & Food	BALBOA	Sylvester Stallone played the heavyweight boxer in the six-movie series that ran steadily until 1990 before a sixteen year gap before the last installment.

Quiz Quilt Answer: BEFORE (Fourth letters going up)

In both games, "B4" is a legal call (Bingo has columns 'B', 'I', 'N', 'G', and 'O', with each column including 15 possible numbers; Battleship has ten lettered columns and ten numbered rows).

Earlier Bingo or Battleship Call -- Quiz Quilt 222 Puzzle

2011-04-15T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Math & Science	Who was the first American woman in space?
Literature & Arts	What Polish-English novelist, born with the last name Korzeniowski, wrote Lord Jim?
Sports & Games	What talk show host turned pace car driver for the 1999 Indianapolis 500?
History & Government	Whose portrait has been on the U.S. $2 bill since 1869?
Geography & Nature	What city surrounds Vatican City?
Entertainment & Food	What is the title character's last name in the 1976 movie Rocky?

William Claude's Clearings -- Quiz Quilt 221 Solution

2011-04-09T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Math & Science	TEFLON	Roy Plunkett formulated the nonstick coating, the slipperiest known solid for over half a century, for DuPont in 1938.
Literature & Arts	WHITMAN	"Song of Myself", "Song of the Open Road", and "I Sing the Body Electric" all graced Walt Whitman's pages in 1855 and were joined in later editions by "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd".
Geography & Nature	GREYHOUND	They were first raced on a track in 1876, but the sport developed in the U.S. during the 1920s.
Sports & Games	BELLE	Cleveland Indians outfielder Albert Belle paced the American League with 52 doubles and 50 homers in 1995, becoming the first to reach 50 in both categories in a season.
Entertainment & Food	JUDD	The other daughter Ashley starred in the 2001 movie Someone Like You while Naomi played a makeup artist and Wynonna composed the soundtrack.
History & Government	BASTILLE	Bastille Day is celebrated on July 14, the date in 1789 recognized as the end of the monarchy and the beginning of the modern republic.

Quiz Quilt Answer: FIELDS (Third letters)

W.C. Fields, born with the last name Dukenfield, was a turn-of-the-20th-century comedian and actor, famous for portraying a drunk.

William Claude's Clearings -- Quiz Quilt 221 Puzzle

2011-04-08T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Math & Science	By what trade name is tetrafluoroethylene better known?
Literature & Arts	What American poet worked as a printer, teacher, and carpenter, and wrote the collection Leaves of Grass?
Geography & Nature	What breed of dog can run the fastest?
Sports & Games	Who was the last Major League Baseball Player to lead a league in both doubles and home runs in the same season?
Entertainment & Food	What is the last name of the mother and daughter country singers Wynonna and Naomi?
History & Government	What is the fortress and prison in Paris for which the French named their national holiday?

Short or Long, Sprayer or Displayer -- Quiz Quilt 220 Solution

2011-04-02T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	POITIER	Sidney Poitier's directorial debut was Buck and the Preacher, where he also starred opposite Harry Belafonte in 1972.
Math & Science	SALMONELLA	Veterinarian Daniel E. Salmon discovered the first illness-inducing strain in 1885.
Literature & Arts	SPARROW	The easily excitable bird shot an arrow at the Cuckoo but missed.
Geography & Nature	STOCKHOLM	Except for the initial awards in 1901, the king of Sweden has presented the Nobel Prizes each year.
History & Government	MCCARTHY	Joseph McCarthy helped fuel the red scare until 1954, was finally discredited, and died partly from alcoholism three years later.
Sports & Games	SANDERS	Later in the year Stanford graduate Summer Sanders began a second career on television as a co-host of NBA Inside Stuff and later became the host of The Sports List.

Quiz Quilt Answer: SHOWER (Seventh letters going up)

With a short vowel, a shower sprays water from a nozzle; with a long vowel, a shower exhibits something for you to see.

Short or Long, Sprayer or Displayer -- Quiz Quilt 220 Puzzle

2011-04-01T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What A Raisin in the Sun actor directed Stir Crazy in 1980 and Ghost Dad in 1990?
Math & Science	What bacteria causes the most food poisoning in humans?
Literature & Arts	According to Mother Goose, who killed Cock Robin?
Geography & Nature	In what city are the Nobel Prizes in every category except Peace awarded?
History & Government	What U.S. senator claimed to have a list of 205 Communists in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1950?
Sports & Games	What gold medal swimmer married another gold medal swimmer, Mark Henderson, on July 4, 1997 at Lake Tahoe?

Viola - Cello -- Quiz Quilt 219 Solution

2011-03-26T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Geography & Nature	INDONESIA	The nation is the world's biggest archipelago.
Math & Science	PAVLOV	Nobel Prize winner Ivan Pavlov trained dogs to salivate at the sound of a whistle in anticipation of being fed. He also used several other objects, but bells were not among them.
History & Government	MARSHALL	George C. Marshall's Marshall Plan provided $12 billion in relief from 1948 to 1952.
Entertainment & Food	DUMONT	The network, jointly owned by television manufacturer Allen B. DuMont and Paramount Pictures, broadcast from 1946 until 1956.
Sports & Games	DREAMCAST	The console was produced until 2001 when the company exited the market.
Literature & Arts	NABOKOV	The U.S. Customs Bureau initially confiscated copies of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial book but eventually let them go.

Quiz Quilt Answer: OCTAVE (Sixth letters going up)

The violas and cellos in an orchestra are tuned exactly one octave apart.

Viola - Cello -- Quiz Quilt 219 Puzzle

2011-03-25T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Geography & Nature	What is the 741,000-square-mile country of 235 million people whose currency is the rupiah?
Math & Science	What Russian physiologist and psychologist documented his experiments in the book Conditioned Reflexes in 1926?
History & Government	Which U.S. Secretary of State's European Recovery Program helped Europe after World War II?
Entertainment & Food	In the 1950s, what was the fourth commercial television network, along with ABC, CBS, and NBC?
Sports & Games	What 128-bit game system did Sega release in 1998?
Literature & Arts	What author's 1955 novel Lolita did mainstream publishers initially reject as erotica?

Cover Up -- Quiz Quilt 218 Solution

2011-03-19T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

History & Government	PEROT	After four years, Jesse Ventura took over control of the party from Ross Perot in 1999.
Math & Science	CELEBREX	Pfizer's brand of celecoxib was the company's fourth best seller by the following year.
Literature & Arts	SPAIN	The 1940 Ernest Hemingway novel occurs during the Spanish Civil War.
Geography & Nature	CUBA	Cuba uses blue stripes and a red field while Puerto Rico sports red stripes and a blue field. Both flags include a white star and white stripes.
Sports & Games	RODEO	The sport debuted at the Olympics as an exhibition at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Entertainment & Food	STEWART	Both Rod Stewart's single and its album, Every Picture Tells a Story, were at the top of their charts in September 1971 in the U.S. and U.K.

Quiz Quilt Answer: TOUPEE (Second letters going up)

A toupee is a wig worn to cover partial baldness.

Cover Up -- Quiz Quilt 218 Puzzle

2011-03-18T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

History & Government	Who founded the Reform Party in the U.S.?
Math & Science	In June 1999, what arthritis pill passed Viagra as the fastest-selling new drug ever?
Literature & Arts	In what country does For Whom the Bell Tolls take place?
Geography & Nature	What country's flag is almost identical to Puerto Rico's except for the colors?
Sports & Games	What professional sport consists of bareback bronc-riding, saddle bronc-riding, bull riding, calf roping, and steer wrestling?
Entertainment & Food	What British singer's first number one hit was "Maggie May"?

Triangle Language -- Quiz Quilt 217 Solution

2011-03-12T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	CHAMPAGNE	The two-layered drink was Otto von Bismarck's favorite.
Geography & Nature	MARRAKECH	The ancient city is the home of Djemaa el-Fna, "the place of the dead".
Literature & Arts	GATES	Bill Gates's business and technology books were published in 1996 and 1999 respectively.
Sports & Games	DOKIC	Serbian Jelena Dokic crushed her 6-2, 6-0.
Math & Science	RAMSAY	William Ramsay was the first to isolate helium and radon and discovered neon, argon, krypton, and xenon, which are called "noble" because they do not react with other chemical elements.
History & Government	BENELUX	The agreement was signed in 1944 to allow goods and capital to flow freely between the countries.

Quiz Quilt Answer: PASCAL (Fifth letters)

Pascal's Triangle is a geometric representation of the binomial coefficients, and Pascal is a computer language, both named for the French mathematician Blaise Pascal.

Triangle Language -- Quiz Quilt 217 Puzzle

2011-03-11T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What type of alcohol is traditionally poured on top of Guinness stout to make a Black Velvet?
Geography & Nature	What major city in southern Morocco was its capital during the Middle Ages and again in the 16th and 17th centuries?
Literature & Arts	Who pondered The Road Ahead and advocated Business at the Speed of Thought?
Sports & Games	Who was the reigning World Junior Champion who upset Martina Hingis in the first round of Wimbledon in 1999?
Math & Science	What Scottish chemist first isolated or discovered the six noble gases?
History & Government	What economic union did the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium form in 1948?

Green Apron -- Quiz Quilt 216 Solution

2011-03-05T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Literature & Arts	KAFKA	Franz Kafka's trio of novels appeared sequentially from 1925 to 1927.
Sports & Games	MARINO	Number 13, Dan Marino, threw for 61,361 yards and 420 touchdowns and also ceded the records for career attempts and completions to number 4.
Geography & Nature	QUITO	At its peak the empire extended from present-day Peru to Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.
History & Government	LENIN	Nikolai Lenin's new name was based on the Lena River, in opposition to Georgi Plekhanov, who called himself Volgin for the Volga River.
Entertainment & Food	LAGASSE	Cajun cook Emeril Lagasse started on a 1993 show called How to Boil Water but soon had his own programs, including The Essence of Emeril and Emeril Live.
Math & Science	AMETHYST	The gem is the birthstone of February.

Quiz Quilt Answer: FRINGE (Third letters)

The area around the putting green on a golf course, where the grass is cut longer than the green but shorter than the fairway, is known as both the fringe and the apron.

Green Apron -- Quiz Quilt 216 Puzzle

2011-03-04T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Literature & Arts	What existential German author wrote The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika?
Sports & Games	What NFL quarterback had the most career passing yards and touchdowns before Brett Favre?
Geography & Nature	What is the capital of Ecuador that was once the capital of the Inca empire?
History & Government	What Russian politician was born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov?
Entertainment & Food	What Food Network chef is famous for saying "Bam!" when adding ingredients?
Math & Science	What purple stone is a variety of quartz that is tinted by impurities such as ferric oxide?

Carnivore, Comic Cop, or Chandler -- Quiz Quilt 215 Solution

2011-02-26T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Sports & Games	BOBSLED	The comedy was based on the true story of a Jamaican bobsled team. The team broke ground for not only its country's climate but also the first black competitors in the event.
History & Government	OTIS	Five years earlier, Elisha Graves Otis had created a mechanism to prevent hoisting machinery from falling, a critical part of the elevator.
Literature & Arts	BUNYAN	Deacon John Bunyan had been jailed for three months for preaching in public but extended the sentence to twelve years because he refused to promise he would not do it again.
Math & Science	CALORIE	When discussing food, a calorie is actually a thousand times this unit.
Entertainment & Food	ALLEY	Actress Kirstie Alley, who would become famous for playing Rebecca Howe, also later won $10,000 with Lucille Ball on Password Plus.
Geography & Nature	TOPEKA	Appropriately, the capital city is now home to a Frito-Lay potato chip-making plant.

Quiz Quilt Answer: BOBCAT (First letters)

A bobcat is a wild feline, Bobcat Goldthwait is a comedian who acted in the "Police Academy" movies, and Tyson Chandler is the current center for the Charlotte Bobcats.

Carnivore, Comic Cop, or Chandler -- Quiz Quilt 215 Puzzle

2011-02-25T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Sports & Games	What Olympic sport was featured in the 1993 movie Cool Runnings?
History & Government	Who manufactured the first passenger elevator in 1857?
Literature & Arts	What English author wrote Pilgrim's Progress while in prison in 1675?
Math & Science	What unit is defined as the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water from 14.5° to 15.5° Celsius?
Entertainment & Food	What future Cheers star was an unknown when she won a $5,000 jackpot on Match Game?
Geography & Nature	Which Kansas city's name means "good place to dig potatoes" in the Kansa language?

Incredible Girl -- Quiz Quilt 214 Solution

2011-02-19T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	BURNETT	Reality show pioneer Mark Burnett also produced The Apprentice and The Contender series.
Math & Science	EAGLE	Its name is the Latin word for the predatory bird.
Literature & Arts	WILLIAMS	Tennessee Williams's play won the 1945 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.
Geography & Nature	KYOTO	As of 2008, the city had just under 1.5 million people, an average of over 6,000 per square mile.
History & Government	NIXON	Richard Nixon's July 20, 1969 radio message to the Apollo 11 astronauts included the line.
Sports & Games	VOLLEY	A ball hit immediately after it bounces is called a half-volley.

Quiz Quilt Answer: VIOLET (Diagonally from the bottom left)

Violet was the daughter of the superhero family in the 2004 movie "The Incredibles".

Incredible Girl -- Quiz Quilt 214 Puzzle

2011-02-18T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What British entrepreneur and producer brought the Survivor TV show to the U.S. in 2000?
Math & Science	What animal does the Milky Way constellation Aquila represent?
Literature & Arts	What playwright's The Glass Menagerie appeared on Broadway and was made into three movies?
Geography & Nature	What city served as Japan's capital from 794 to 1868 and is still the country's cultural heart?
History & Government	Who announced, "For years politicians have promised the moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it"?
Sports & Games	What is the tennis term for any ball after the serve that is hit before it touches the ground?

Statue of Liberty Insider -- Quiz Quilt 213 Solution

2011-02-12T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	SAYER	The songs from Leo Sayer's Endless Flight album peaked in January and May respectively.
Literature & Arts	KAMIKAZE	The word originally described a typhoon that saved the country from a Mongol naval invasion in 1281.
History & Government	ROLFE	John Rolfe's Algonquian Indian wife died of smallpox three years later, after he had returned to England with her to seek investors.
Geography & Nature	SUNFLOWERS	The large flowers turn themselves to face the Sun, which they also resemble somewhat.
Math & Science	ALLEN	Entrepreneur Paul Allen, who began supporting the astronomy quest after the U.S. government ended its funding in the mid-1990s, has donated over $900 million for the search.
Sports & Games	LEFLORE	Speedster Ron LeFlore had not played baseball in high school or college but stole 455 bases during a nine-year career.

Quiz Quilt Answer: EIFFEL (Fourth letters)

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel is more famous for building the Eiffel Tower, but he also designed the armature, the interior framework, of the Statue of Liberty.

Statue of Liberty Insider -- Quiz Quilt 213 Puzzle

2011-02-11T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What Englishman topped the charts with "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You" within a five-month span in 1977?
Literature & Arts	What Japanese word meaning "divine wind" describes a type of pilot?
History & Government	What English colonist introduced tobacco cultivation to Jamestown and married Pocahontas?
Geography & Nature	What is the flower of genus helianthus whose seeds are one of Romania's main agricultural products?
Math & Science	What businessman put up $11.5 million on August 1, 2000 to fund a new telescope array as part of the SETI project?
Sports & Games	What Detroit Tigers outfielder was recruited from prison and was the subject of the 1978 TV movie One in a Million?

Wrangle With a Witch -- Quiz Quilt 212 Solution

2011-02-05T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Math & Science	CLERMONT	The ship was nicknamed for its sailing port in New York. [FOLLY is also a good answer.]
History & Government	SELMA	A trap was set for her the following year but came up empty.
Sports & Games	LEGOS	The colorful plastic bricks have been used to construct a wide range of amazing things, including a working 7-foot grandfather clock and a Rubik's Cube solver.
Geography & Nature	RUGBY	The sport is generally split between Rugby League and Rugby Union, whose rules differ as much as those between American and Canadian football.
Literature & Arts	PEANUTS	Charles Schulz reluctantly agreed to the name change when he sold the strip to the United Feature Syndicate in 1952 because of the existing strips "Little Folks" and "Li'l Abner".
Entertainment & Food	MAHLER	Bohemia-born Gustav Mahler also left a mark as a composer with symphonies such as Das Lied von der Erde.

Quiz Quilt Answer: HAGGLE (Third letters going up)

"Wrangle" and "haggle" both can mean "to argue intensely", and "hag" can mean "witch".

Wrangle With a Witch -- Quiz Quilt 212 Puzzle

2011-02-04T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Math & Science	Although its real name was the North River Steam Boat, by what name was Robert Fulton's steamship known?
History & Government	What Loch Ness monster "cousin", first spotted in the 18th century, is credited with "mysterious whale-like noises" recorded in Seljord Lake in Norway in September 1999?
Sports & Games	What Danish building blocks are the most popular in the world and have been used to build a scale replica of Copenhagen, Denmark?
Geography & Nature	Which town in Warwickshire in Central England is known for its public schools and the creation of a popular European sport?
Literature & Arts	What comic strip did its creator originally call Li'l Folks?
Entertainment & Food	What Austrian conductor led the Imperial Opera in Vienna, the Metropolitan Opera House, and the New York Philharmonic?

Spay Cat, Mutt -- Quiz Quilt 211 Solution

2011-01-29T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	UNLEDDED	The lead guitarist and singer of the British rock band Led Zeppelin followed up the MTV show with the album "No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded".
Geography & Nature	LEMMING	The 1958 Walt Disney movie White Wilderness helped popularize this myth. In reality, the rodents simply spread out to ease overpopulation occasionally.
History & Government	BUSH	The line was part of George Bush's presidential campaign in 1988.
Literature & Arts	STORM	Johnny Storm is a member of the Fantastic Four. The first incarnation of the Human Torch was an android created by Professor Phineas T. Horton.
Math & Science	LEAD	Lead was added to paint to make it stick better and last longer. The metal has not been allowed in paint in the U.S. since 1978.
Sports & Games	ORR	Bobby Orr led the Bruins to their first Stanley Cup championship in almost three decades in 1970, scoring the winning sudden-death overtime goal then flying horizontally.

Quiz Quilt Answer: NEUTER (Second letters)

Although the terms spay and neuter are usually used to refer to the removal of organs necessary for sexual reproduction in female and male animals respectively, the words can be used for either gender.

Spay Cat, Mutt -- Quiz Quilt 211 Puzzle

2011-01-28T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What was Jimmy Page and Robert Plant's 1994 acoustic reunion special called?
Geography & Nature	What animal, which lives in Arctic areas including Norway and Sweden, supposedly periodically marches to the sea and drowns?
History & Government	Which U.S. President promised, "Read my lips. No new taxes"?
Literature & Arts	What is the modern Human Torch's secret identity?
Math & Science	What chemical element causes painter's colic?
Sports & Games	What three-time NHL MVP defenseman played with the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks from 1967 to 1979?

Canadian Queen -- Quiz Quilt 210 Solution

2011-01-22T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

History & Government	MARSHALL	Carpenter James Marshall had been building the sawmill in Coloma, California for half a year when he made the discovery.
Sports & Games	PITINO	University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate Rick Pitino then joined the Boston Celtics, a regrettable move that lasted four years before he returned to the state of Kentucky, albeit at rival Louisville.
Math & Science	INDIANA	The bill was so poorly worded that it also set pi at four other incorrect values and misstated the square root of two. Fortunately, the bill did not pass.
Entertainment & Food	IAGO	The episode was part of The Philco Television Playhouse series, which ran from 1948 to 1955.
Geography & Nature	NEVADA	Its Southwest neighbor Arizona ranked second in most years and took over the top spot in 2006.
Literature & Arts	ROSTAND	Edmond Rostand's title character was a real 17th-century French soldier and dramatist, but the story is fictitious.

Quiz Quilt Answer: REGINA (Diagonally from the bottom left)

Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, was named for Queen Victoria, also known as Victoria Regina using the Latin and Italian word for "queen".

Canadian Queen -- Quiz Quilt 210 Puzzle

2011-01-21T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

History & Government	On January 24, 1848, who found the first gold in California at Sutter's Mill?
Sports & Games	What New York Knicks basketball coach wrote Born to Coach before leaving for the University of Kentucky?
Math & Science	Which U.S. state's General Assembly declared the value of pi to be 4 in Bill Number 246 in 1897?
Entertainment & Food	What Othello villain did Walter Matthau play in a 1953 TV production?
Geography & Nature	Which U.S. state's population grew the most in percentage terms every year from 1987 to 2005?
Literature & Arts	What author's 1898 play Cyrano de Bergerac involves an unconventional love triangle?

Christmas, Mistletoe, or Teddy Bear -- Quiz Quilt 209 Solution

2011-01-15T23:00:00.001-05:00

Category Answers:

Sports & Games	KEDS	U.S. Rubber first mass-marketed the canvas-topped sneakers in 1917, having selected the name Ked after discovering that Ped was already taken.
Geography & Nature	OAHU	The 608-square-mile island is only the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands but holds four-fifths of the state's population.
Entertainment & Food	WALTERS	Boston native Barbara Walters co-anchored her first ABC News broadcast on October 4, 1976.
Literature & Arts	LINCOLN	In addition to writing about Abraham Lincoln, the Swedish-American also won two Pulitzers for poetry.
History & Government	SEWARD	At a total cost of $7.2 million, the transaction was denigrated as Seward's Folly at the time, but history has vindicated Secretary of State William Seward.
Math & Science	ZINC	The one-cent piece has been made of 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper since 1982, nearly reversing the proportions used in the prior two decades.

Quiz Quilt Answer: CACTUS (Fourth letters going up)

The Christmas cactus has bright pink flowers, the Mistletoe cactus has fruit resembling mistletoe, and the Teddy Bear cactus has a brown trunk that can look amazingly like the stuffed animal (just don't hug it).

Christmas, Mistletoe, or Teddy Bear -- Quiz Quilt 209 Puzzle

2011-01-14T23:01:00.001-05:00

Category Questions:

Sports & Games	What was the first brand of sneakers?
Geography & Nature	What is the main island of Hawaii where Honolulu, Pearl Harbor, and Waikiki are located?
Entertainment & Food	Who was the first female co-anchor on a U.S. network television newscast?
Literature & Arts	For which U.S. President's biography, subtitled "The War Years", did Carl Sandburg win the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History?
History & Government	What American statesman was responsible for the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867?
Math & Science	What is the main chemical element in current U.S. pennies?

What Goes Down Must Come Up -- Quiz Quilt 208 Solution

2011-01-08T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Literature & Arts	GHOTI	The author claimed the pronunciations "gh" as in "laugh", "o" as in "women", and "ti" as in "nation".
Sports & Games	MONOPOLY	Charles Darrow copyrighted the game in 1933, three decades after Lizzie J. Magie's similarly laid out Landlord's Game.
History & Government	KEYNES	Englishman John Maynard Keynes first gained fame with the publication of The Economic Consequences of the Peace in 1919.
Math & Science	PLANCK	[Max] Planck's constant, denoted by the letter 'h', is still used to measure the quanta.
Entertainment & Food	CONGA	"It's the rhythm of the island, and like sugarcane so sweet / If you want to do the conga, you've got to listen to the beat."
Geography & Nature	SIROCCO	The winds begin in the Sahara Desert and other dry regions and can blow up to sixty miles per hour in March and November.

Quiz Quilt Answer: IPECAC (Fifth letters)

Syrup of ipecac was formerly recommended for inducing vomiting in patients who had ingested poison, but because of concerns over ineffectiveness and overdosing, the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests disposing of any bottles in your medicine cabinet.

What Goes Down Must Come Up -- Quiz Quilt 208 Puzzle

2011-01-07T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Literature & Arts	How did George Bernard Shaw spell the word "fish" to demonstrate the irregularity of English spelling?
Sports & Games	What famous board game is based on the streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey?
History & Government	Who was the first baron of Tilton and the originator of the New Economics?
Math & Science	What German physicist stated that energy was transmitted in quanta and received a Nobel Prize in 1918?
Entertainment & Food	What 1985 Miami Sound Machine hit song was named after a Latin dance?
Geography & Nature	What term refers specifically to the desert winds in Algeria and generally to any windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand?

Magic Money Man -- Quiz Quilt 207 Solution

2011-01-01T23:00:00.001-05:00

Category Answers:

History & Government	TYLER	Virginian John Tyler became the first person to inherit the presidency in 1841.
Literature & Arts	WHITE	T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight, and The Candle in the Wind tell the story of King Arthur.
Math & Science	LYELL	Charles Lyell's three volumes, subtitled "An Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface by Reference to Causes Now in Operation", were released from 1830 to 1833.
Entertainment & Food	DILL	The Talmud mentions the use of the annual herb to pay tithes. [Caraway is also a good answer.]
Geography & Nature	EYE	At lower speeds, when the storm is categorized as a tropical storm, the eye usually does not exist yet.
Sports & Games	WEST	"Mr. Clutch" Jerry West averaged 20.3 points per game for the 1973-74 Los Angeles Lakers before hanging up his sneakers.

Quiz Quilt Answer: TELLER (Last letters going up)

A teller is a bank employee, and magician Penn Jillette's silent partner is Raymond Joseph Teller, who goes by just his last name.

Magic Money Man -- Quiz Quilt 207 Puzzle

2010-12-31T23:01:00.001-05:00

Category Questions:

History & Government	Who was William Henry Harrison's Vice President, who became President when he died early in his first term?
Literature & Arts	What English author wrote the tetralogy The Once and Future King from 1938 to 1958?
Math & Science	What British scientist's book Principles of Geology became the basis of modern day geology?
Entertainment & Food	What European plant of the carrot family has pungent, aromatic leaves and seeds that are used for pickling?
Geography & Nature	What is the calm part in the center of a hurricane?
Sports & Games	Who is the only player besides Michael Jordan and Larry Bird to retire from the NBA after averaging over 20 points in his final season?

Stress MSGing -- Quiz Quilt 206 Solution

2010-12-25T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	MARCEAU	Marcel Marceau's character sported a dented, silk hat and a red flower.
Sports & Games	DICICCO	Tony DiCicco, Anson Dorrance's successor, quietly stepped down to spend time with his family after the team won the 1999 World Championship.
Math & Science	CERVICAL	The Latin cervic means "neck".
History & Government	STANLEY	David Livingstone's response to Henry Stanley was, "You have brought me new life", as he was running out of supplies near Lake Tanganyika. The New York Times financed Stanley's trip.
Literature & Arts	BATSON	C.C. Beck and Bill Parker created Billy Batson in 1940. There have been several other superheroes called Captain Marvel, not surprisingly including some from Marvel Comics.
Geography & Nature	JAKARTA	Jakarta, Indonesia's name had been Jayakarta from 1527 until 1619 and was renamed Jakarta by the Japanese when they occupied it during World War II.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ACCENT (Sixth letters)

Accent is a brand of food seasoning whose main ingredient is monosodium glutamate, and an accent on a syllable is a stress.

Stress MSGing -- Quiz Quilt 206 Puzzle

2010-12-24T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What French mime was known for his sad-faced clown character Bip?
Sports & Games	Who was the U.S. women's soccer head coach who resigned on November 3, 1999?
Math & Science	What medical adjective describes the vertebrae located highest on the spine?
History & Government	What explorer was famous for his line, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume"?
Literature & Arts	What is the secret identity of comic strip and movie character Captain Marvel?
Geography & Nature	What is the current name of the city formerly known as Batavia?

Various Gold Spinners -- Quiz Quilt 205 Solution

2010-12-18T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	BEST	The group dismissed Pete Best on August 16, 1962 for musical reasons.
Literature & Arts	BYRON	Lord Byron penned "She Walks in Beauty" in 1814, after seeing his cousin, Lady Anne Wilmot Horton, in her mourning dress.
Math & Science	AMERICIUM	The alpha radiation from the radioactive americium-241 passes through an ionization chamber where the presence of smoke would interrupt its flow.
Sports & Games	IRVIN	Former University of Miami star Michael Irvin had set school receiving records for career catches, yards, and touchdowns and contributed to a national title in 1987.
History & Government	THINK	Thomas Watson had first issued the directive when he was working for NCR three years earlier.
Geography & Nature	MIDWAY	Since the last Navy personnel left in 1997, the islands have served mostly as a National Wildlife Refuge.

Quiz Quilt Answer: DIVERS (Third letters going up)

"Divers" is an alternate spelling of "diverse", and Olympic divers hope to spin their way to gold medals.

Various Gold Spinners -- Quiz Quilt 205 Puzzle

2010-12-17T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	Who was the original drummer for the Beatles that Ringo Starr replaced?
Literature & Arts	What poet wrote, "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies"?
Math & Science	What chemical element is usually used in ionization smoke detectors?
Sports & Games	What Dallas Cowboys wide receiver was suspended for five games in 1996 for a felony cocaine conviction?
History & Government	What has been IBM's one-word motto since 1914?
Geography & Nature	What is the two-square-mile atoll, located in the Hawaiian group of islands, that is part of the U.S. but not incorporated into Hawaii?

Charge Center -- Quiz Quilt 204 Solution

2010-12-11T23:00:00.001-05:00

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	DNA	Vega's company bought the originally unauthorized song and made a video for it.
Literature & Arts	POE	Edgar Allan Poe's short stories have terrified readers since the 1840s.
History & Government	UTAH	The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads joined their tracks in the town of Promontory.
Geography & Nature	ROMANIA	The historic region is now a province in central and western Romania.
Math & Science	ERNST	The Austrian physicist established the principles of supersonics and devised the Mach number in 1887.
Sports & Games	SPITZ	Californian Mark Spitz only came home with two but would go on to greater glory in 1972, taking home a then-record seven gold medals.

Quiz Quilt Answer: PROTON (Second letters going up)

The nucleus of an atom contains charge-neutral neutrons and positive protons.

Charge Center -- Quiz Quilt 204 Puzzle

2010-12-10T23:01:00.002-05:00

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What British duo remixed Suzanne Vega's original a capella version of "Tom's Diner" and hit the charts in 1990?
Literature & Arts	What author mastered the art of suspense in "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
History & Government	In which future state was the last spike driven in to complete the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869?
Geography & Nature	In what country is Transylvania located?
Math & Science	What is the first name of the physicist for whom Mach speed is named?
Sports & Games	What American swimmer predicted he would win six gold medals during the 1968 Olympics?

Gourd Game -- Quiz Quilt 203 Solution

2010-12-04T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Literature & Arts	MATISSE	Over 100,000 visitors had viewed Henri Matisse's inverted paper-cut boat and its reflection. The Frenchman had taken up art while recovering from an appendicitis operation.
History & Government	ACTIQ	Cephalon verbosely calls its product a "medicated, mild berry-flavored lozenge that is attached to a handle".
Math & Science	KURU	Some scientists believe the disease was often transmitted when cannibals ate infected human brain tissue.
Entertainment & Food	CHARLES	"The Fix-Up" episode in 1992 earned Larry Charles his first Emmy, shared with Elaine Pope.
Sports & Games	ASHLEY	Players from the continent of Africa had become grandmasters before Maurice Ashley, but none of them were black.
Geography & Nature	HOUSTON	The code is short for Intercontinental Airport of Houston, which was renamed George Bush International Airport in 1997.

Quiz Quilt Answer: SQUASH (Diagonally from the top to the bottom left)

Squash is both a fruit related to the gourd and a racket sport played in a walled room.

Gourd Game -- Quiz Quilt 203 Puzzle

2010-12-03T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Literature & Arts	What artist's Le Bateau hung upside down in the New York Museum of Modern Art for 47 days in 1961?
History & Government	What prescription pain killer was approved for cancer patients in 1998 and is dispensed as raspberry flavored lollipops?
Math & Science	What fatal disease of the central nervous system is commonly known as Laughing Sickness?
Entertainment & Food	Who was the two-time, Emmy-winning Seinfeld writer who became executive producer of Mad About You?
Sports & Games	What U.S. chess player became the world's first black grandmaster on March 15, 1999?
Geography & Nature	What U.S. city's three-letter airport code is IAH?

Sluggish Slab -- Quiz Quilt 202 Solution

2010-11-27T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

Math & Science	LUNG	The infection attacks the alveoli.
Literature & Arts	URIS	Leon Uris's three-part novel, whose name is short for the Queen's Bench Number 7 courtroom, was a bestseller in 1970.
Geography & Nature	MECCA	They genuflect toward the Kaaba ("House of God") in Saudi Arabia five times a day.
Entertainment & Food	BLIZZARD	Over 175 million of the frozen treats were sold in its debut year in 1985.
Sports & Games	ELEPHANTS	The World Elephant Polo Association has run the tournament since 1982.
History & Government	RENO	President Clinton appointed Janet Reno in 1993.

Quiz Quilt Answer: LUMBER (First lettters)

"Lumber" can mean to "move slowly and heavily" as a verb and "a plank or block of wood cut from a tree" as a noun.

Sluggish Slab -- Quiz Quilt 202 Puzzle

2010-11-26T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

Math & Science	What major part of the body does pneumonia affect?
Literature & Arts	Who was the author of QB VII?
Geography & Nature	What is the holiest city in Islam toward which Moslems must pray?
Entertainment & Food	What Dairy Queen offering spawned the McDonald's McFlurry and the Friendly's Cyclone?
Sports & Games	What type of animals are used in the annual polo tournament held each December on the Meghauli airstrip in Nepal?
History & Government	Who was the first female U.S. Attorney General?

NFL Norseman -- Quiz Quilt 201 Solution

2010-11-20T23:00:00.000-05:00

Category Answers:

History & Government	CALVIN	Born as Jean Chauvin on July 10, 1509, John Calvin studied law and humanities at the University of Paris.
Entertainment & Food	ORKIN	At least two people needed their televisions repaired after throwing objects at the bugs.
Literature & Arts	JACKSON	The San Francisco native Shirley Jackson called the book "a disrespectful memoir of my children".
Math & Science	APHIDS	The agricultural pests can be combated naturally with ladybugs and other predators.
Geography & Nature	FRANKFORT	Frankfort, Kentucky is home to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Zeigler-Brockman House and Daniel Boone's grave.
Sports & Games	KNIGHT	Bobby Knight, "The General", won championships in 1976, 1981, and 1987 and individual awards in 1975, 1976, and 1989.

Quiz Quilt Answer: VIKING (Fourth letters)

The Minnesota Vikings joined the National Football League in 1961.

NFL Norseman -- Quiz Quilt 201 Puzzle

2010-11-19T23:01:00.000-05:00

Category Questions:

History & Government	What French scholar and theologian believed in predestination and wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion?
Entertainment & Food	What pest control company's ads in 2000 fooled many viewers into believing that a live cockroach was crawling up their televisions?
Literature & Arts	Who was the author of the autobiography Life Among the Savages in 1953?
Math & Science	What tiny, usually green, pear-shaped insects suck the juices of plants?
Geography & Nature	What is the only U.S. state capital whose name begins with the letter 'F'?
Sports & Games	What Indiana Hoosiers basketball coach won three NCAA titles and three Coach of the Year awards?