Solution to Fall 2015 POTW #6 (Ehhh, The Horror!) and #7 (Emmanuel Fay Cult)

See here for the original post for Fall 2015 POTW #6: Ehhh, The Horror!
Solution:

1. "The Silence of the Limbs"
2. "The Bards"
3. "2001: A Spice Odyssey"
4. "The Amen"

See here for the original post for Fall 2015 POTW #7: Emmanuel Fay Cult

Solution:

1. Yulia DEMENTIEVA (MEDIA EVENT)
2. Aren GERDON (GO NERD)
3. Christine LEIGHTON (HOTEL GIN)
4. Lenore MARTIN (TIN ARM)

Fall 2015 POTW #7: Emmanuel Fay Cult

Solutions due by midnight on Sunday, November 22, 2015.

Last week, the World Scrabble Championships happened in Australia. It just so happens that a few of my friends participated in the event and did very well! Specifically, congrats to Evan, John, Jesse, Dave, and Chris. They all placed in the Top 40 and deserve recognition; congratulations, all of you!

I used to play in Scrabble tournaments myself. The folks I met in that world have gone on to achieve marvelous things; in honor of them, this week's puzzle is based on anagrams.

Specifically, each answer here is the last name of a professor/lecturer at Emmanuel College. The names are clued by revealing a specific two word phrase which you must then anagram into someone's name. To help you, I have included the department in which the professor/lecturer works at EC, and I have tried to make the phrasal clues as transparent as possible (without being so revealing as to be uninteresting).

You may use the following website, which lists faculty at Emmanuel College, as a resource: http://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty.html . Of course, you may use any other resource you wish, as well; part of the point of this puzzle is to get you to think and do some research. (Don't necessarily feel like you should be able to answer these questions off the top of your head!)

Keep in mind: Each clue reveals a two word phrase which then anagrams to the last name of someone on the list in the website link above; your answer should be the last name of the professor/lecturer clued.

For example, if the clue were, "This history professor has 2000 pounds of evergreens", the answer would be FORTIN since TON FIR anagrams to FORTIN.

I will award 2.5 points for each correct answer.

What is your name (or team name)?
(Please use the same name every week so that I can properly record your scores!)

(1) This math professor has caused TV and radio to report on a specific happening.


(2) This chemistry professor's rally cry might be translated as, "Huzzah, geek!"


(3) This education professor drinks a juniper liquor from a place where you pay for a nightly stay.


(4) This political science professor has a limb made from the element with atomic number 50.

Fall 2015 POTW #6: Ehhh, The Horror!

Solutions due by midnight on Sunday, November 1, 2015.

To celebrate this week's Hallowe'en Holiday, puzzle questions and answers are related to famous horror/thriller films. Every question/answer is based on a film on the American Film Institute's list of "The 100 Most Thrilling American Films". Feel free to use this list as a reference while solving these puzzles!

More specifically, the answer to each clue is a modified film title. Each title is obtained by taking the title of a well-known horror film (on that AFI list) and changing one of its vowels to a different vowel. (This is similar to a previous puzzle I posted.) I have provided clues in the form of brief synopses of the modified films.

For example, if the clue were "This war drama concerns young recruits and the steel outerwear they sport during October and November while the leaves change color", the solution would be Fall Metal Jacket. (Yes, Full Metal Jacket is #95 on AFI's "100 Years, 100 Thrills" list.)

Advice: look for references to both  the original and modified film titles in a clue.

Each correct answer earns 2.5 points. Happy spooky week(end)!

1. In this acclaimed film, a convicted killer (and former psychiatrist) helps an FBI trainee track a serial killer and keep his arms and legs quiet.
2. In this black-and-white thriller, a California town is mystified when Shakespeare, Chaucer, and other classic poets inexplicably rampage the citizens.
3. This Academy Award-winning film depicts mankind's relationship to the universe via apes, monoliths, an intelligent computer, as well as pepper, turmeric, cardamom, dill, cumin, and many more ...
4. A possessed child is the main antagonist in this 1970s horror classic, but in a climactic scene where his father drags him to an altar, the child only mutters a four-letter word signaling the end of a prayer.

What is your name (or team name)?
(Please use the same name every week so that I can properly record your scores!)


1.


2.


3.


4.

Solution to Fall 2015 POTW #5: Oh My Gourd!

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Solution:

1. Pumpkin
2. Butternut (squash)
3. Acorn (squash)
4. Spaghetti (squash) ("Spa-Getty")

Fall 2015 POTW #5: Oh My Gourd!

Submissions due by midnight on Sunday 10/25.

To celebrate the autumnal spirit, this week's answers are all types of gourds and squashes. Each answer has been clued in a roundabout way, possibly involving a pun or wordplay and, at the least, involving an interpretational stretch. (In the parlance of crossword puzzles, these are "question mark-style" clues.)

Here's an example to help you: If the clue were, "Trigger that's pro-environment?", then the solution would be Green Button (which is a type of squash). (I promise the answers below are more well-known gourds and squashes...)

2.5 points will be awarded for each correct answer.

1. Relative of a particular kind of low-cut shoe?
2. Churning fanatic?
3. Maize doing well in school?
4. Place to get a mani-pedi owned by a particular American gas company?

What is your name (or team name)?
(Please use the same name every week so that I can properly record your scores!)


1. Relative of a particular kind of low-cut shoe?


2. Churning fanatic?


3. Maize doing well in school?


4. Place to get a mani-pedi owned by a particular American gas company?

Solution to POTW #3: MBTehhhhh

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Solution:

1. Haymarket
2. Government Centre
3. Braintree
4. Coolidge Corner
5. Cleveland Circle

Solution to POTW #2: mOvie vOwels

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Solution:

1. Johnny Depp gives a stellar performance in this true-life tale of mobsters, the FBI, and the search for a deadly, dark-colored fungus.
   Black Moss (from Black Mass)
   
2. This critically-acclaimed Oscar-winner depicts the mayhem and violence caused by corruption, organized crime, and double-agents at a big city’s department of Citizenship & Immigration Services.
   The Deported (from The Departed)
   
3. In this dark tale of entangled crimes and accusations, a softball team’s enigmatic extra infielder is murdered by his childhood pal.
   Mystic Rover (from Mystic River)

Theme: All of these movies are set in the city of Boston, MA. (More specifically, they're crime dramas set in Boston, but I accepted "set in Boston" as sufficiently correct.)

Fall 2015 POTW #3: MBTehhhhh

Submissions due by midnight on Sunday 10/11.

The answer to each clue below is an MBTA (Boston, MA) subway stop. (Bus stops do not count; this only refers to the Red, Green, Blue, Orange, and Silver lines.)

Each answer has been clued in a roundabout way, possibly involving a pun or wordplay and, at the least, involving an interpretational stretch. (In the parlance of crossword puzzles, these are "question mark-style" clues.)

Here's an example to help you: If the clue were, "Where Citizens and Santander treat their customers well?", the solution would be Fairbanks.

2 points will be awarded for each correct answer:

1. Where a farmer may purchase some feed for his horses?
2. Washington, D.C.?
3. An elm inside your helmet?
4. Where a former Mass. Governor and U.S. President grew up and hung out?
5. Ring around a major Midwestern American city?

Note about submissions:

• Please use the same name every week so that I will have a correct cumulative total at the end of the semester!
• Also, you do not  need to provide both a name and team name. If you are an individual, supply your name. If you are submitting on behalf of a group of people, supply your group's name.
• Also, please be unique. Don't use a name of, for instance, "Joe" because there will surely be more than one Joe. Full first and last names would be best.

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POTW #2: mOvie vOwels

Due by midnight on Sunday 10/04/2015

The answer to each clue below is a made-up movie title. Each title is obtained by taking the title of a well-known film and changing one of its vowels to an “O”. I have given a brief synopsis of each made-up movie based on its title.

For example, if the clue were, “A caped crusader roams Gotham City thwarting criminals in the late hours, but he can be found playing Dungeons & Dragons and getting bullied by jocks during the day,” the correct answer would be The Dork Knight.

General advice: look for references to both the original title and the modified title in the synopsis. Also, remember that each example changes one vowel (A, E, I, or U) to an O.

3 points will be awarded for each correct title, and 1 point will be awarded for identifying the common theme uniting the films.

1. Johnny Depp gives a stellar performance in this true-life tale of mobsters, the FBI, and the search for a deadly, dark-colored fungus.
2. This critically-acclaimed Oscar-winner depicts the mayhem and violence caused by corruption, organized crime, and double-agents at a big city’s department of Citizenship & Immigration Services.
3. In this dark tale of entangled crimes and accusations, a softball team’s enigmatic extra infielder is murdered by his childhood pal.

Submit your answer via the Google Form below (or the link here):

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