Dr. TTT's Puzzle Game Show
By Ben Lowenstein
Answer: STOCK MARKET CLOSE
First, select the noun from each group of six that doesn't have a property the other five share.
- agouti, bushbaby, human, lemur, macaque, saki: primates
- Ahura Mazda, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Tezcatlipoca, Unkulunkulu, Vishvakarman: creator gods
- airplane, dead, embassy, quill, revival, sweetwater: words in Woodstock performers
- Albania, Bohemia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mauritania, Slovakia: real countries
- Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg: Canadian provinces
- anchor, ark, bubbles, coral, gill, squirt: Finding Nemo characters
- Antonio Salieri, C.P.E. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Joseph Haydn, Muzio Clementi, Luigi Boccherini: Classical composers
- apartheid, eigenvalue, heist, Klein bottle, percentile, seismograph: E before I
- archerfish, cardinalfish, clownfish, kingfish, ladyfish, swordfish: ___fish, where ___ is a person
- Arnold Schonberg, Kurt Godel, Nathan Soderblom, Noel Coward, Otto Holder, Rudolf Lowenstein: umlauts
- Austin, Charleston, Cincinnati, Dover, Madison, Olympia: capital cities
- bal-musette, bourree, concerto, courante, gigue, sarabande: dances
- Belgium, Canada, England, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland: French-speaking countries
- biscotti, broccoli, cantaloupe, lasagna, minestrone, noodle: Italian etymology
- Blue Knob, Camel's Hump, Clingmans Dome, Mount Katahdin, Mount Mitchell, Pikes Peak: Appalachian mountains
- Bronx, Kings, Manhattan, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk: New York City counties
- Cameroon, Morocco, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Seychelles: double-letter countries
- Canandaigua, Cayuga, Honeoye, Okeechobee, Otisco, Owasco: Finger Lakes
- candela, kilogram, meter, microfarad, mole, second: SI base units
- canvas, deadlines, discus, kidneys, princes, saltines: words becoming new words when 's' is added
- chapel, festival, laboratory, railroad, village, workshop: Dominion cards
- Charles de Gaulle, F.D. Roosevelt, Hideki Tojo, Joseph Stalin, Wilhelm II, Winston Churchill: WWII leaders
- Charlie Sheen, Kirsten Dunst, Leonard Nimoy, Lindsay Lohan, Sherry Palmer, Terence Stamp: real people OR xxxxxxx xxxxx
- Cincinnatus, Gnaeus Pompeius, Julius Caesar, Scipio Africanus, Sulla, Vercingetorix: Roman leaders
- cut, enemy, flag, game, reverse, ring: Mathcamp '13 week 2 classes
- DeWitt Clinton, John Lindsay, Michael Bloomberg, Prudent Beaudry, Robert Van Wyck, Rudolph Giuliani: New York City mayors
- Evan Bayh, Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Donnelly, Ken Salazar, Mary Landrieu, Mike Gravel: senators born 1955 OR current Democrats
- fire, null, scene, table, trap, watch: things that can be set
- Giovanni Ceva, Giuseppe Peano, Guido Fubini, Jakob Steiner, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Vito Volterra: Italian mathematicians
- head, heart, liver, nose, stomach, toe: unique body parts
- Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, Pau Gasol, Robert Horry, Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan: Lakers
- unbinilium, unbiunium, ununpentium, ununseptium, ununtrium, unununium: unnamed elements
Next, fill in these thirty-two words into the crosses after sorting into the three categories. Note that each row/category can be filled in two different ways.
Persons:
J
O
P H
R A
U N
D N
E E
N S
T G B
B V A R
E E U A
A R T S H
U C A H M
T I M D U N C A N W I L H E L M I I M I K E G R A V E L N O E L C O W A R D J A K O B S T E I N E R
R N A R
Y G B R
E U Y
T D P
O D A
R H L
I A M
X E
R
P
R
J U
O D
H E
A N
N T
N B
E V E
S G E A
B A R U
R U C J D
A T I A R
W I L H E L M I I T I M D U N C A N N O E L C O W A R D M I K E G R A V E L S H E R R Y P A L M E R
M M G O
S A E B
B T S
U O T
D R E
D I I
H X N
A E
R
Places:
M
E A
N N
G H
P L A
A A B T
P I K E S P E A K W I N N I P E G O K E E C H O B E E C I N C I N N A T I
I D H A
S E N
T M
A I
N A
P
B I
O K
H E
W E S
I M E P
M A N H A T T A N P A K I S T A N C I N C I N N A T I O K E E C H O B E E
N A G A
I L K
P A
E N
G D
Things:
P
E
M R
S C I C
W U O C E
O N K N R N
R U I C O T
D N D E F I
F L A G A G O U T I N O O D L E T O E A R K R A I L R O A D N U L L
I N E M T R E
S I Y B O A
H U S A D
M S
S
Y
M
I
P C
U R E R
N S A R O
U W E I C F
N O M L E A
U R B R N R
N U L L N O O D L E A G O U T I A R K T O E C O N C E R T O F L A G
I F S I A I D
U I S D D L
M S Y N E
H E
Y
S
Taking the intersection points of each row and reading across gives the six words DIMES, HANKY, KNOT, NINE, FUNERAL, and NDAKOTA.
Finally, we take these six words and fill them into the blanks on the left, giving us the answers on the right:
Capital of NDAKOTA
There were NINE before 2006
With KNOT, a parasite
Real name for a HANKY
Half of DIMES
FUNERAL director
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BISMARCK
PLANETS
ROOT
HANDKERCHIEF
NICKELS
UNDERTAKER
The blanks numbered 1, 2, and 3 respectively spell, when read top to bottom, STOCK MARKET CLOSE.