Sunday Puzzle: Kennections : NPR

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On-air problem

I’ve introduced a number of video games of Kennections, within the type of “Jeopardy!’s” Ken Jennings’ new ebook, “The Complete Kennections.”

In every set, I’ll ask you 5 questions, the solutions to which have one thing in frequent. Try to reply the questions. Then inform me the frequent denominator.

PUZZLE #1

1. What large in British publishing, based in 1935, was identified for its cheap paperbacks and merged with Random House in 2013? (7) 
2. What elementary idea in Chinese philosophy is represented by an emblem referred to as a “taijitu”? (3,3,4)
3. What African animal travels in a herd generally known as a “dazzle”? (5)
4. What type of cookie is an ingredient in a Dairy Queen Blizzard? (4)
5. For fixing what sort of puzzle did Ken Jennings win a prize in a 2006 nationwide championship? (9)

 
PUZZLE #2

1. What actor, with the initials M.M., starred within the 1983 battle drama “Streamers”? (7,6)
2. Who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington? (4,3)
3. Who has obtained a file 35 Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design? (5,4)
4. Who directed, co-wrote, and co-starred within the 1969 movie “Easy Rider”? (6,6)
5. What Spanish explorer was the primary individual to guide an official European expedition to Puerto Rico and Florida? (5,2,3)

This week’s problem

This is a two-week inventive problem, and it is a robust one. Most persons are acquainted with palindromes, which learn from side to side the identical. For instance:

• Rise to vote, sir.
• Lid off a daffodil.

The object is to put in writing a palindrome that accommodates the letter Q. 

Entries shall be judged on sense, naturalness of syntax, and total class.

The one who submits what I contemplate to be the most effective palindrome containing the letter Q will play puzzle on the air with me subsequent week.

If you understand the reply to the problem, submit it right here by Thursday, July 31 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose solutions are chosen win an opportunity to play the on-air puzzle. Important: embrace a telephone quantity the place we are able to attain you.