Puzzle Corner Answers

1. Mohs scale of hardness for rocks: Talc, Gypsum, Calcite, Fluorite, Apatite, Orthoclase, Quartz, Topaz, Corundum, Diamond.
2. It’s the only known 26-letter pangram.
3. (a) deny
3. (b) bookkeeper
4. tremendous, stupendous, and horrendous
5. fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, ...
6. Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
7. Queueing is the only such word in the English language.
8. The words are ‘screeched’ and ‘strengths’.
9. underground
10. Maine
11. Afghanistan and Azerbaijan
12. (a) Each contain all five vowels in alphabetical order.
12. (b) Two - the two you took!
12. (c) Cleave
13. The sequence OBAFGKML indicates the eight standard classes of stars, in order of descending temperature. L is a new class of heavenly bodies cooler than M class stars.
14. 1841 (Martin Van Buren, William Harrison, and John Tyler) and 1881 (Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, and Chester Arthur).
15. The four Galilean moons of Jupiter, in order of their distance from Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
16. United States of America (NOT In God We Trust)
17. The ruling houses of England, from 1066, in order: Norman, Plantagenet, Lancasater, York, Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, Saxe-Coburg, and Windsor.
18. dreamt
19. set
20. uncopyrightable
21. the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein
22. 294
23. 3,355,036 is the fifth and next perfect number.
24. The Mercalli scale measures the local effects, on a scale of 1-12. (The Richter Scale measures magnitude)
25. (a) Fear of the number 13.
(b) Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
26. The major geologic periods of the Earth's history.
27. The Liberty Bell cracked while tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall.
28. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
29. The height of General Tom Thumb
30. Mata Hari
31. Lady Bird (former First Lady)
32. The two words are hungry and angry.
33. One Thousand
34. Sovereignty
35. 2 and 4
36. Testing Recall About Strange Happenings
37. World Wide Web