Sunday Puzzle by Will Shortz
The winner: Stephen Walton. Assistant Professor of French at PSU. Stephen Walton, Ph.D. ( University of Wisconsin-Madison) French Language & Literature
Dr. Walton received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research interests include Francophone authors of West Africa and the Caribbean, and in particular their critique of colonial ideology and the post-colonial situation. He has secondary research interests in poetry, 19th-century French literature, and language pedagogy. His publications include articles on Paul Eluard and on Baudelaire and Aimé Césaire. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the US Department of Education for the incorporation of technology in the language curriculum at PSU. He teaches courses in French language and literature.
Weekend Edition Sunday, May 4, 2008 ·
In this week's on-air puzzle, you are given three words that rhyme with three things that start with the same letter and are in the same category. For example, given "soxer," "facet" and "regal," the answer would be "boxer, "basset" and "beagle."
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Challenge from Last Week: From Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco. Insert a long E sound after the first letter of "bond" and phonetically you get "be-ond." Insert a long E sound after the first letter of "renter" and you get "re-enter." Name something found in outer space. Insert a long E sound after the first letter, and you'll name a resident of a major American city. What are the words?
The answer: Satellite, Seattle
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