What a Sport! Answer (9/30)

ULTIMATE (frisbee)

The derivative answers are: ULTIMA, LIMA (Peru), and MA (Massachusetts).

Tricky Analogy III Answer (9/29)

C) Cairo, Egypt

First, there is the number of letters in each city-state pair:

4,4 : 5,5 :: 4,4 : 5,5

This eliminates choices A and D.

Second, no capital shares a letter with its country. This eliminates choice B.

Double Trouble Answers (9/28)

B and Q

Moving Musician Answer (9/27)

JOHN COLTRANE

Capital Actress Answers (9/26)

(Jessica) ALBA + NY (or New York) = ALBANY

Mike Roe Mania! Answers (9/25)

1) MICROFILM
2) MICROCHIP
3) MICROORGANISM
4) MICROSOFT
5) MICROSCOPE
6) MICROPROCESSOR
7) MICROPHONE
8) MICROFICHE
9) MICROMACHINES
10) MICROECONOMICS

An Island for Breakfast Answers (9/24)

CYPRUS and SYRUP

The Longest Letter Answer (9/23)

QUEUE or Q

The Homonyms from Palindrome Answers (9/22)

EYE and I

A Family Thing Answers (9/21)

GRANDMA and GRAND MAL (short for grand mal seizure)

Russian Roulette Answers (9/20)

GOOGOL (This is a one with a hundred zeros behind it. It's also where Google got their name.)

GOGOL (Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol lived from 1809 to 1852.)

Arrgh, Matey! Answers (9/19)

PRECARIOUS
NEFARIOUS

Double Take Answers (9/18)

1) Comma coma
2) Eerie Erie
3) Red reed
4) Ruder rudder
5) Butt but
6) Bitter biter
7) Soon son
8) Holy holly
9) Poop pop
10) Moto motto
11) HAL hall
12) Freed Fred
13) Nose noose
14) Tot toot
15) Coop cop
16) Mouse mousse
17) Stoop stop
18) Hot hoot
19) Good god
20) Been Ben

Exotic Origins Answers (9/17)

PANDA and JAPAN

The panda bear is from China.

Three Random Parts Answer (9/16)

PHILIPPINES

Altered on a Whim Answers (9/15)

SOCCER
TENNIS
FOOTBALL
SWIMMING

They are all sports. The rule was 'Drop any adjacent double letters occurring in the word.' (The two 'I's in "SWIING" were not dropped because in its original form the letters are not adjacent.)

Godzilla Among Us Answers (9/14)

BRAZIL and LIZARD

It's About Time Answers (9/13)

A, B, C, and D

Rearranged, you form B.C. and A.D.

Here's an Easy One Answer (9/12)

WATER

The point falls just 400 miles south of Ghana, West Africa in the Atlantic Ocean.

A Smattering of Movies! Answers (9/11)

Parts I & II

1) Tom Cruise
2) Demi Moore
3) Jack Nicholson

Common Movie: A Few Good Men

4) Tom Hanks
5) Gary Sinise
6) Ed Harris

Common Movie: Apollo 13

7) Brad Pitt
8) Robert De Niro
9) Dustin Hoffman

Common Movie: Sleepers

10) Kevin Costner
11) Tommy Lee Jones
12) Gary Oldman

Common Movie: JFK

13) Joe Mantegna
14) John Malkovich
15) Jamie Lee Curtis

Common Movie: Queens Logic

Part III

The actor who starred in all five movies was Kevin Bacon, of course!

Two Famous Writers Answers (9/10)

STEPHEN HAWKING and STEPHEN KING

City State Answers (9/9)

MISSOURI and MISSOULA

Opposites Attract Answers (9/8)

PRINCESSES and PRINCES

Before and After Answer (9/7)

ABRACADABRA

Sidekick City Answers (9/6)

The city is TORONTO.

The three sidekicks are TORO (with the Human Torch), TONTO (with the Lone Ranger), and ROBIN (with Batman). All three debuted during the Golden Age of comics.

Land Lubber Answer (9/5)

e) none of the above

Iceland, Ireland, England, Poland, and Finland are in Europe.
Thailand is in Asia.
Swaziland is in Africa.
Greenland is a self-governing island region of Denmark (and therefore not a country).

New Zealand is in Oceania and was left out of the choices, thereby making all other answers invalid in relation to the question.

Name Scrunchies: Writers' Edition Answers (9/4)

1) Charles Dickens
2) William Golding
3) Bram Stoker
4) Willa Cather
5) Richard Hughes
6) Barbara Kingsolver
7) Thomas Hardy
8) Aldous Huxley
9) Stephen King
10) Robert Graves
11) Agatha Christie
12) Mark Twain
13) John Updike
14) Harper Lee
15) Margaret Mitchell
16) John Steinbeck
17) Alexandre Dumas
18) Henry James
19) Rudyard Kipling
20) Edgar Allan Poe
21) Lord Byron
22) Stephen Crane
23) Sinclair Lewis
24) Oscar Wilde
25) Annie Proulx

State Class Answers (9/3)

Montana & Anatomy

Two Letters Answers (9/2)

P and I

(Private Investigator and pi)

Tricky Analogy II Answer (9/1)

a) New Mexico

Each of the states in the analogy begin and end with a state abbreviation that is not its own. Maryland begins with MA (Massachusetts) and ends with ND (North Dakota) : Connecticut begins with CO (Colorado) and ends with UT (Utah) :: Missouri begins with MI (Michigan) and ends with RI (Rhode Island) : New Mexico begins with NE (Nebraska) and ends with CO (Colorado).

c) Oklahoma is ruled out because none of the above states starts with its own abbreviation.

b) Maine is ruled out because an additional pattern is set up. The two states in Maryland do not border; then the two states in Connecticut do border. Again, the two states in Missouri do not border; then the two states in New Mexico do border.