My sister-in-law got me a puzzle of the day desk calendar for Christmas. She apologised for not giving me something “better” (i.e. more expensive), but in all honesty it was one of the best presents I got this year.
The puzzles from January 29-31 consist of (vaguely) science-related anagrams. In each case, you have to fill in the blanks with two words that are anagrams of each other. The first few were ridiculously easy, but a couple of them proved tricky enough that I had to write the letters of some likely words down in random order to play with.
Who wants to play?!
Only one answer per commenter per hour, please, to give people in other time zones a chance to take part! No need to go in the right order though. I’ll do my best to add answers and bragging rights credit as the comments come in!
1) DNA AND RNA are blueprints for making proteins (Elizabeth)
2) Of all the elements, NONE is as useful for making brightly lit signs as NEON (Alyssa)
3) The coral REEF was FREE of pollution (Kristi. Oh, if only this was true)
4) Because the telescope was out of focus, the astronomer was UNABLE to see the NEBULA clearly (Graham. For shame, Alyssa, for shame!)
5) The brilliant BRAINY scientist could count in BINARY as well as decimal (Ken)
6) When doctors DILATE a patient’s eyes, they see more DETAIL in the retina (Kristi)
7) The computer used a fast ALGORITHM to compute the LOGARITHM of a number (Joanna)
8) You can turn a TRIANGLE into a square by ALTERING the number of sides (Kristi)
9) The doctor had to CALIBRATE his tools to look for a BACTERIAL infection (Stephen)
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Oh fun!!! We can only do one answer? Okay, I’ll do the second one:
2) Of all the elements, none is as useful for making brightly lit signs as neon
Ooh, my turn!
7) The computer used a fast algorithm to compute the logarithm of a number.
That’s a brilliant present – I really think we should compile a NN list (with links) of all these cool presents for the… er… creatively challenged amongst us to refer to next year!
Both correct!
Alyssa, one answer per commenter per hour… so feel free to come back later and answer any remaining questions!
3) The coral REEF was FREE of pollution.
Is 1) DNA AND RNA are blueprints for making proteins?
Yes and yes!
4) The astronomer was UNABLE to see the NEBULA clearly.
Yep! I’m surprised Alyssa didn’t take that one 🙂
5) The brilliant brainy scientist could count in binary as well as decimal.
Seems redundant, but…
doubly redundant!
Heh! Don’t know how that happened, I just copied/pasted. I must be right right, then.
I meant that “brilliant” and “brainy” are both redundant when next to “scientist” 🙂
Can I throw in a surreal entry since I can’t chip in a real one for 1/2 an hour ??
6) When doctors DISECT a patient’s eyes, they see more EDICTS in the retina.
Surreal is always good!
I’m rubbish at this sort of thing. I could write you a short surreal novella, perhaps?
Yes please! One per hour 🙂
6) When doctors DILATE a patient’s eyes, they see more DETAIL in the retina.
What a coinkydink – I’ve just spent the last few hours discussing research on the development of cranial ganglia. 🙂
Yes – I have personal experience with this one!
Coinkydink is a great word 🙂
10) calibrate and bacterial. Phew!
Yay! Just The One That Doesn’t Really Make Sense left.
“Coinkydink” comes from that classic trickster and silly wabbit, Bugs Bunny.
Just The One That Doesn’t Really Make Sense left.
Care to elaborate…?
Stephen, the anagram works, but saying you can turn the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ into a square by _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the number of sides is a very strange way of putting it.
Ah – think I’ve got it then but I’ll stick to your rules and leave the field open. Feeling ever so slightly smug though. It’ll pass. Soon.
OK peeps, you’ve got 44 minutes to beat Stephen to it…
8) triangle and altering
Woohoo! Off to the gym ….
Correct, but within your 1 hour exclusion time! If Stephen has the same answer (be honest, Stephen!), you get to share credit!
My penultimate answer was at 22:38 UTC – does post without answer restart the exclusion clock?
Oops! You are correct, Kristi, my apologies! I just looked for your last comment time without paying attention to content…
Sorry, Stephen
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4) The astronomer was UNABLE to see the NEBULA clearly.
Yep! I’m surprised Alyssa didn’t take that one 🙂
LOL You know, I was wracking my brain about that one! My excuse is that I know about WAY too many types of astronomical objects! 😀
Heh! I have that same problem sometimes with the science categories on Jeopardy. Then my husband laughs at me and I have to explain why the question was poorly worded / had several possible answers.
The signalling molecules cascaded like an ORCHESTRA but needed a CARTHORSE to take them back to square one for the next burst of activity.
Or, as Napoleon said, “Able was I, ere I saw Elba”.
Hm. Completely missed thisl. Graham spelled “dissect” incorrectly though. 😉
/pedant
I isolated the BASIPARACHROMATIN from the MARSIPOBRANCHIATA
(With thanks to Google.)
Ooh! New contributions! There’s life in this here game still! I’ll try to think of some more later.