WAMC's Ian Pickus and resident quizzer Mike Nothnagel celebrate the World Series with a show about other series.
Last week's challenge
Start with the phrase OSLO, NORWAY. Drop one letter, then rearrange the result to spell the names of two fabrics (5 letters and 4 letters). What are they?
Answer: If you drop the S, you can spell RAYON and WOOL.
THIS WEEK'S CATEGORY: SERIES #3
On-air questions: The World Series is in full swing. Unfortunately, our favorite teams aren't in it this year. Game Three is tonight, and we hope that whichever teams are in it, the one that our listeners want to win is the one that is winning. So we continue an Any Questions? World Series tradition with our annual quiz on series. As in prior years, each list of things form a series, with one item missing. You determine what the missing item is.
1. Double eagle, eagle, _____, par, bogey, double bogey
2. Schenectady, Albany, Greene, _____, Orange, Rockland
3. Margaret Thatcher, John Major, _____, Gordon Brown, David Cameron
4. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.; Sounds of Silence; Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme; Bookends; _____
5. Famous pirates, bells, the O.J. Simpson trial, Tennessee, _____, series
Extra credit
1. Troposphere, _____, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere
2. Rhode Island, Delaware, _____, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont
This week's challenge
Start with the word POSTSEASON. Drop one letter and you can rearrange the result to spell a word that names certain utensils you might have in a kitchen drawer. What are they?
ANSWERS
On-air questions
1. Birdie (Golf scores from three under par to two over par)
2. Ulster (New York counties bordered by Hudson River on the east from north to south)
3. Tony Blair (U.K. Prime Ministers 1979 - present)
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel studio albums)
5. Nobel Peace Prize (Any Questions? categories from the last six weeks)
Extra credit
1. Stratosphere (layers of the Earth's atmosphere from lowest to highest)
2. Connecticut (U.S. states by area from smallest to largest)
