Here are the questions and answers to Questions 90413. No one reported the correct answers.
THE QUESTION BOX # 101
Each issue of this newsletter will have a Question Box with a puzzle, riddle or trivia question. First person to give an answer in writing to Mark Paul is the winner each week. At the end of the year there will be a random drawing among the winners for a nice prize. Names of winners and answers will be published in the next issue.
# 101. When this product was first invented, it was suggested that it be called DUPAROOH. Then someone suggested KLIS. A third suggestion was that it be called NORUN. By what name do we know this product today?
Bonus question, for extra credit (we’ll print your name in caps): What is the etymology of the three suggested names (i.e., what do the letters stand for?)
ANSWER: # 101 Nylon. Extra credit: 1. DUPAROOH = DuPont Pulls A Rabbit Out Of Hat. 2. KLIS = Silk, backwards. 3. NORUN = Nylon runs less often than silk.
# 102 What kind of cheese is made backwards?
ANSWER: # 102 Edam cheese. (MADE — EDAM)
# 103 Create an English sentence that is grammatically correct and contains the word “and” five times in succession (with no intervening words) and makes sense.
ANSWER: # 103 Referring to the following:
“John and Mary are married.”, the sentence is as follows. “In the preceding sentence the distances between ‘John’ and ‘and,’ and ‘and’ and ‘Mary’ are unequal.”
# 104 Create an English sentence that is grammatically correct and contains the word “had” eight times in succession (with no intervening words) and makes sense.
ANSWER: # 104 Referring to two different answers John and James wrote on an English test in school: (1) (John’s answer) “The boy had had a lot of luck.”, and (2) (James answer) “The boy had, had a lot of luck.”, the sentence is as follows. “John, where James had had ‘had, had,’ had had ‘had had’.”
# 105 Create an English sentence that is grammatically correct (other than for the fact that it ends in a preposition) that ends in five consecutive prepositions and makes sense.
ANSWER: # 105 The father had brought the wrong book to read to his daughter, and she said: “Why did you bring that book that I didn’t want to be read to out of up for?”
Answers to Question Box 90413
Here are the questions and answers to Questions 90413. No one reported the correct answers.
THE QUESTION BOX # 101
Each issue of this newsletter will have a Question Box with a puzzle, riddle or trivia question. First person to give an answer in writing to Mark Paul is the winner each week. At the end of the year there will be a random drawing among the winners for a nice prize. Names of winners and answers will be published in the next issue.
# 101. When this product was first invented, it was suggested that it be called DUPAROOH. Then someone suggested KLIS. A third suggestion was that it be called NORUN. By what name do we know this product today?
Bonus question, for extra credit (we’ll print your name in caps): What is the etymology of the three suggested names (i.e., what do the letters stand for?)
ANSWER: # 101 Nylon. Extra credit: 1. DUPAROOH = DuPont Pulls A Rabbit Out Of Hat. 2. KLIS = Silk, backwards. 3. NORUN = Nylon runs less often than silk.
# 102 What kind of cheese is made backwards?
ANSWER: # 102 Edam cheese. (MADE — EDAM)
# 103 Create an English sentence that is grammatically correct and contains the word “and” five times in succession (with no intervening words) and makes sense.
ANSWER: # 103 Referring to the following:
“John and Mary are married.”, the sentence is as follows. “In the preceding sentence the distances between ‘John’ and ‘and,’ and ‘and’ and ‘Mary’ are unequal.”
# 104 Create an English sentence that is grammatically correct and contains the word “had” eight times in succession (with no intervening words) and makes sense.
ANSWER: # 104 Referring to two different answers John and James wrote on an English test in school: (1) (John’s answer) “The boy had had a lot of luck.”, and (2) (James answer) “The boy had, had a lot of luck.”, the sentence is as follows. “John, where James had had ‘had, had,’ had had ‘had had’.”
# 105 Create an English sentence that is grammatically correct (other than for the fact that it ends in a preposition) that ends in five consecutive prepositions and makes sense.
ANSWER: # 105 The father had brought the wrong book to read to his daughter, and she said: “Why did you bring that book that I didn’t want to be read to out of up for?”