A. 10
B. 4. Natural
C. 37
D. 2. Whale
E. SWALLOW
F. 3.DILVIAV
G. NOSE
H. O
I. 16
J. 33
K. 20
Those are the answers. The thread is now locked and you can see the progression. Upper Deck Chevy's clue gave everyone a big insight into letter H, but only Bill Bobaggins was around to see it. She wins the challenge.
So.....its time to vote. Vote for one of these 5 people
BLAKESGIRL
NavyDoc69
NCTrafficMan
JD Heel
Email me at Lb4smc2@aol.com or IM me.....
The deadline to vote is 10 AM tomorrow morning.
Well I was around at the time we were told the HINT was going to come...
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By the way, there are some sharks that give live birth. I think D was based on the premise of Whale's being the only one to give live birth, which would be wrong.
I may be wrong, bit I think it was the whale was the only mammal in the bunch.
What the heck? I go away for the weekend and come back to find that practically all my answers were wrong. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
Natural makes sense for B. So do about 3 others....
Whale makes sense for D. So does another, if you look at it a different way....
I need somebody to explain G and H to me. Especially H. I came up with a surefire formula for both letters on H (for Y and N, that is). I'm curious to see how O works into both of them....
-JD
Some comments about the answers:
B:
I think the only thing that matters here is the first letter of the words. They are in order (D,E,F,N,G) except for natural.
D:
I believe rickheel is correct on this.
F:
I found a similar question somewhere else on the web, but it was worded "What word is not a famous composer?" The answers given are anagrams:
ZOTRAM <=> MOZART
DIVLIAV <=> VIVALDI
I couldn't figure out the other two, but Vivaldi is certainly a composer, so I'm still stumped on ths one.
G.
Makes so sense, unless the solution includes the final step "unscramble into a real word"
H.
Makes no sense, period. If you know the answers are "O", then the following relationship applies if you assign the variables as follows:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"> w x y z
---- ---- ---- ----
G (-2) E (+6) K (+4) O (+0) O
A (+8) I (+1) J (+3) M (+2) O</pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">z=(w+x)/y-1
But, there's no way of knowing that the constant in the relationship is -1 unless you were given the O's. P would make much more sense, but I'm sure there's a simpler answer somewhere.
I figured as much about B. D was a little trickier. If I'm not mistaken (and I might be), I believe the goldfish is the only freshwater animal of the five. That was from a quick check in the dictionary on some of those, so I may be wrong about that. But, that's where goldfish came from....
The composer thing still has me stumped. The three I figured up were Vivaldi, Mozart, and Strauss. I couldn't figure out the other one, so I assumed (probably a bad idea) that it was the answer.
Oh well....
-JD
JD,
Goldfish was my first thought as well for the exact same reason only freshwater fish in the group...
Oh well such is life but this was a fun challenge...