Thursday, March 13, 2025

Salt Water: A Puzzle

"There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it." So said a famous Scottish musician the letters of whose first and last names can be rearranged to form the phrase SALT WATER. What are that historical folk-rock singer's first and last names?

The answer to this puzzle is here.




Monday, November 11, 2024

A Brainteaser for the First Anniversary of the Beatles' Last Song

The title of what song by the Beatles can be dialed on a telephone as 669-263-8436? The song was released in November 2023, one year ago.

The answer to this brainteaser is in the lyric video below and also here. Listen to John Lennon singing a song he wrote, the Beatles' last song.



Thursday, October 31, 2024

The Great Pumpkin

In the comic strip "Peanuts" by American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, Linus believes that each year on Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere and flies through the air with a bag of toys for all the children. Everyone tells Linus the Great Pumpkin is a fake, but Linus believes in him.

Listen now to Vince Guaraldi playing "The Great Pumpkin Waltz" from the original soundtrack of the animated "Peanuts" television special "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."



Thursday, October 17, 2024

Brainteaser: Dial-A-Poem

Here is a brainteaser, a puzzle, for you to try to solve.

I met a traveller from an antique land . . . That is the first line of a sonnet (composed in 1817) by Percy Bysshe Shelley, a sonnet the title of which can be dialed on a cell phone as 699-626-3427. What is that sonnet's title?

To read the answer to this puzzle, and to read Shelley's sonnet, click on the following phone number: 699-626-3427.

English poet
(Portrait by Alfred Clint, 1819)

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

A Puzzle! "Let's Do It"

Here is a brainteaser, a puzzle, for you to solve, if you can.

"My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer." So said the American composer, a famous songwriter, whose name can be dialed on a telephone as 265-376-7837. What is that famous songwriter's name?

To read the answer to this puzzle, click here.

Listen now to Lady Gaga singing "Let's Do It," a song that the composer whom I quoted above wrote.



Sunday, September 22, 2024

I Just Called to Say I Love You

"I Just Called to Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder was one of my mother Evelyn's favorite songs. Listen to it now.