Puzzle Corner

Scholastic Visions publishes a puzzle in each issue. Here is a complete set.

1. For what is this sentence a mnemonic device?
      The Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do
2. What is the significance of this sentence?
      J. Q. Schwartz flung D. V. Pike my box.
3. (a) Identify a four letter word that ends in E-N-Y.
3. (b) What word has 3 consecutive sets of double letters?
4. Identify the three words that end in E-N-D-O-U-S.
5. How many words can you name that end with ‘th’?
6. What can be remembered with the acronym HOMES?
7. What English word has five consecutive vowels?
8. What are the two longest one-syllable English words?
9. What word begins and ends with the letters ‘und’?
10. What is the only state that borders on only one state?
11. What nations names begin with ‘A’ but don’t end in an ‘A’?
12. (a) What do facetious and abstemious have in common?
12. (b) Take 2 apples from 3 apples and what do you have?
12. (c) What one word means to cling to and to split off from?
13. What is ‘Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy, Kiss My Lips’?
14. In what two years did the USA have three Presidents?
15. For what is ‘I Eat Graham Crackers’ a mnemonic?
16. What four words appear on every US coin ever minted?
17. For what is this sentence a mnemonic device?
      No Place Like Yours, To Study History So Well
18. What is the only English word that ends in ‘mt’?
19. What word has more definitions than any other word in the English language?
20. What 15-letter word is spelled with 15 different letters?
21. Find all words contained in the word ‘therein’ using consecutive letters and no rearrangements of letters.
22. How many ways are there to change a dollar bill into coin(s)?
23. What is the next number in this series? 6, 28, 496, 8128, ?
24. What scale is used to measure the intensity of earthquakes?
25. (a) What is triskaidekaphobia?
      (b) What is arachibutyrophobia?
26. For what is this sentence a mnemonic device?
      Pregnant Camels Often Sit Down Carefully (Most Peculiarly); Perhaps Their Joints Creek, Perhaps Early Oiling Might Pervent Permanent Hobbling or Rheumatism.
27. What happened on July 8, 1835?
28. What future Presidents signed the Declaration of Independence?
29. What is the significance of the measurement 3 feet 4 inches?
30. What is the better known name of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle?
31. What is the better known name of Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson?
32. What two words end in -GRY?
33. If you spell out numbers, and start at O-N-E, how far would you have to count until you would need to use the letter "A"?
34. What single English word contains the letter sequence "GNT"?
35. Find two integers, a and b, a not equal to b, such that a to the b = b to the a.
36. What does "TRASH" stand for (as in TRASH Tournament)?
37. What common 3 syllable phrase has a 9 syllable abbreviation?