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The Ultimate QoD Challenge -- Week 7, Wednesday

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 5:02 am
by Pastor Fireball
"4-by-4"

Let's see how these two grids grab you. 4 points for every valid foursome with connection, 4 extra points for a perfect grid, and 20 extra points for two perfect grids.

Answers are due by Thursday 5/29 at 4 PM EDT.

Grid 1:

ALEXANDER | ATLAS | BELL | CARVER
COOKIE | DAWSON | GUY | HAYS
HERB | JENNER | JULIUS | LITTLE
MASON | MORSE | WAGSTAFF | ZIP

Grid 2:

BRASS | CHARLESTON | ESCAPE | FOXTROT
GOULASH | HAWK | OSCAR | POCKET
PONG | RED DRAGON | SHOGUN | TANGO
TWIST | WATUSI | WHIRLWIND | WHISKEY

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Re: The Ultimate QoD Challenge -- Week 7, Wednesday

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 7:10 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
Spoiler
Grid 1:

ALEXANDER | ATLAS | BELL | CARVER
COOKIE | DAWSON | GUY | HAYS
HERB | JENNER | JULIUS | LITTLE
MASON | MORSE | WAGSTAFF | ZIP

Zip/Morse/Hays/Guy Codes
Alexander/Cookie/Julius/Herb Dagwood
Jenner/Alexander/Carver/Wagstaff


Grid 2:

BRASS | CHARLESTON | ESCAPE | FOXTROT
GOULASH | HAWK | OSCAR | POCKET
PONG | RED DRAGON | SHOGUN | TANGO
TWIST | WATUSI | WHIRLWIND | WHISKEY
Oscar/foxtrot/Whiskey/Tango

Re: The Ultimate QoD Challenge -- Week 7, Wednesday

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 1:15 pm
by franktangredi
Spoiler
Grid 1:

ALEXANDER | COOKIE |HERB |JULIUS -- characters from the comic strip Blondie

BELL |HAYS | MORSE | ZIP -- types of code

Grid 2:

FOXTROT| OSCAR | TANGO| WHISKEY -- represent letters in the international alphabet

Re: The Ultimate QoD Challenge -- Week 7, Wednesday

Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 6:18 am
by smilergrogan
Spoiler
Pastor Fireball wrote:Grid 1:

ALEXANDER | ATLAS | BELL | CARVER
COOKIE | DAWSON | GUY | HAYS
HERB | JENNER | JULIUS | LITTLE
MASON | MORSE | WAGSTAFF | ZIP
People with first and middle name same as first and last name of a U.S. president: Alexander, Carver, Little?, Mason?
Types of codes: Hays, Morse, Zip, Atlas?
Pastor Fireball wrote: Grid 2:

BRASS | CHARLESTON | ESCAPE | FOXTROT
GOULASH | HAWK | OSCAR | POCKET
PONG | RED DRAGON | SHOGUN | TANGO
TWIST | WATUSI | WHIRLWIND | WHISKEY
Radio alphabetic code words: Foxtrot, Oscar, Tango, Whiskey
Dances: Charleston, Twist, Watusi, Whirlwind?

Re: The Ultimate QoD Challenge -- Week 7, Wednesday

Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 6:59 am
by ShamelessWeasel
Spoiler
Grid 1:


BELL | MASON | COOKIE | HERB - Types of jars

Grid 2:



TANGO | WHISKEY | FOXTROT | OSCAR - Words for letters in phonetic alphabet (T, W, F, o)

Re: The Ultimate QoD Challenge -- Week 7, Wednesday

Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 11:04 am
by Bob Juch
Spoiler
Grid 1:

ALEXANDER | COOKIE | HERB | JULIUS --- Dagwood characters
GUY | HAYS | MORSE | ZIP --- codes

Grid 2:

FOXTROT | OSCAR | TANGO | WHISKEY --- NATO alphabet

Re: The Ultimate QoD Challenge -- Week 7, Wednesday

Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 2:33 pm
by Pastor Fireball
The five who played this round managed to get a few points on the board.

Grid 1:

ALEXANDER | ATLAS | BELL | CARVER
COOKIE | DAWSON | GUY | HAYS
HERB | JENNER | JULIUS | LITTLE
MASON | MORSE | WAGSTAFF | ZIP

Lots of inventors, famous Richards, and jars in this grid. It probably shouldn't surprise you that the perfect solution included none of those categories.

1. GUY | HAYS | MORSE | ZIP

_____ code. The Hays Code concerned censorship in motion pictures between the 1930s-1960s.

2. ALEXANDER | COOKIE | HERB | JULIUS

Characters in the comic strip Blondie. Julius is Mr. Dithers' first name.

3. BELL | CARVER | LITTLE | WAGSTAFF

These were also fictional characters, but in something a little darker than a comic strip.

Characters on "The Wire". Stringer Bell, Ellis Carver, Omar Little, and Randy Wagstaff.

4. ATLAS | DAWSON | JENNER | MASON

I would have doubled over if anybody had spotted this category.

Craters on the Moon.

Grid 2:

BRASS | CHARLESTON | ESCAPE | FOXTROT
GOULASH | HAWK | OSCAR | POCKET
PONG | RED DRAGON | SHOGUN | TANGO
TWIST | WATUSI | WHIRLWIND | WHISKEY

The dances were obvious, but not in the perfect solution.

1. FOXTROT | OSCAR | TANGO | WHISKEY

Everybody got this one. Letters of the NATO phonetic alphabet.

2. BRASS | HAWK | POCKET | TWIST

Charles Dickens characters. Sampson Brass, Sir Mulberry Hawk, Matthew Pocket, and the famous Oliver Twist.

3. ESCAPE | SHOGUN | WATUSI | WHIRLWIND

Things written by James Clavell.

4. CHARLESTON | GOULASH | PONG | RED DRAGON

Mahjongg terms.

5/26 + 5/27 + 5/28 Scores (8 participants)
Bob Juch - 18 + 36 + 12 = 66
themanintheseersuckersuit - 10 + 8 + 12 = 30
franktangredi - 4 + 12 + 12 = 28
ShamelessWeasel - 4 + 14 + 8 = 26
smilergrogan - 6 + 10 + 8 = 24
jarnon - 2 + 10 + 0 = 12
kroxquo - 2 + 10 + 0 = 12
Bob78164 - 4 + 6 + 0 = 10