Puzzle of the Day
Wednesday, June 3
It's the last puzzle of the school year! Did you miss some days? Check out the archive.
Some of you have time on your hands today, so let's go out with an 11-parter (and a riddly one at that). This might be a fun puzzle to solve with friends. Once you've gotten as far as you can on your own, you may enlist the help of Google. You will still need your wits about you to solve the whole set!
- Who was a merry old soul?
- Whose law predicts 1 transistor per chip around 1950, right about the time the transistor was invented?
- Complete the sequence: Ruth, _____, Bonds.
- What noun is, according to Google Books, most likely to fill the blank in "heave a ____"?
- What word has definitions in various dictionaries containing the words greenish, yellowish, reddish, and variable?
- Who gets a raise in John 11?
- Who played the role of Costanza Cosmo on Seinfeld?
- What do you call a maiden who's lost her head?
- What icebox cake–like dessert, named for a princess, is made with ladyfingers and sometimes lots of fruit?
- Who wonders what you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
- Last but not least: the mushrooms seen at right offer guidance on how to spell whose name?
Check back tomorrow for the answer and a shoutout to all solvers!
Previous puzzle:
Can you identify these landmark structures? (Hint: They're all in the U. S.)
- With sides of length 921 feet, Building #1 should theoretically cover an area of 1,459,379 square feet (including its inner courtyard). Fun fact: This building has six ZIP codes.
- Building #2, standing 555 feet tall, is the tallest stone structure in the world built by humans; it's also the tallest building of its particular shape, but by no means the oldest—a distinction it misses by about 3800 years.
- Disregarding its thickness, Structure #3 ("building" seems like the wrong word) is approximately the graph of the equation
for 
, where x and y are in feet.
Answer:
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1. The Pentagon
| 2. The Washington Monument
| 3. The Gateway Arch
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The Gateway Arch is an inverted catenary (not to be confused with the Gatoway Arch, which is an inverted lolcatenary).
Hurrah to all who solved one or more, with random animal emoji for getting all three: Hazel, Zachary Z.🐥, Charlie, Anna K., Harper🐬, Atticus, Anna J., Leo S.🐠, Jessica, Josh M.🐨, Peter M., Maddy, and Jason🐢!
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