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TT2-Mini Non-Reading Games & Puzzles for Cupcakes - JUNE/JULY - from Captain Cupcake & LK
Something different, a little quiz.PUZZLE #77
Just answer “T” for “true” or “F” for “false.”
It's all about the reading biz,
If right, with a cupcake you will waltz.
Do this when you need a break from reading.
You have until the end of the 7% Solution Challenge.
You can submit it as a Team, or send your best player to collect your cupcake.
Please DO NOT post solution here. Mail to ratminichallenges@gmail.com
The True/False Quiz
1. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn.
2. Books used to be shelved “backwards” with the spine facing the back of the shelf and the fore-edge facing out.
3. Research now indicates that the 6- to 7-year-old age range is the sweet spot for teaching reading. Beyond the age of 7 or 8, teaching a child to read is a game of catch up.
4. On average across the world people spend 16.5 hours a week reading.
5. According to a study from Yale University, three-quarters of students who are poor readers in third grade will remain poor readers in high school.
6. Dr. Seuss coined the word “nerd” in his 1950 book “If I Ran the Zoo.”
7. It takes an average of 1,075 hours to write a novel.
8. Books that were penned or conceived behind bars include Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes), Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan), De Profundis (Oscar Wilde), and The Prince (Machiavelli).
9. Books used to be chained to the bookshelves in libraries.
10. The ratio of customers to bookstores is lowest in Nevada, Texas, and Mississippi.
11. On the average, a bookstore browser will spend eight seconds looking at the front cover and 15 seconds scanning the back cover.
12. Half of all books sold today are to people over the age of 45.
13. Adults who read literature on a regular basis are more than two-and-a-half times as likely to do volunteer or charity work, and over one-and-a-half times as likely to participate in sporting activities.
14. The largest advance ever paid for a self published book? A whopping $4.125 million. Simon & Schuster paid that for Richard Paul Evans’ The Christmas Box.
15. Women buy 68% of all books sold.
16. The page most readers lose interest at? Page 18!
17. A glimpse into the NASA library reveals astronauts’ preferred reading includes A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, and London Bridges, by James Patterson.
18. The longest reading aloud marathon by a team lasted 224 hours and was completed by Milton Nan, Silvina Carbone, Carlos Antón, Edit Díaz, Yolanda Baptista and Natalie Dantaz (all Uruguay) at Mac Center Shopping, Paysandú, Uruguay between September 13-22, 2007.
19. The Penguin paperback was created to make books as affordable as cigarettes, and the first Penguin paperbacks were distributed from a church crypt.
20. Nancy Pearl, in addition to being the most famous librarian in the world, is also now the only librarian to have an action figure created in her likeness.
21. Studies have shown that American children who learn to read by the third grade are less likely to end up in prison, drop out of school, or take drugs.
22. The 1930’s reading primer series Fun with Dick and Jane, by Dr. William S. Gray is rumored to be plagiarized from Sir Fred Schonell’s similar Dick and Dora readers, found in his Happy Venture Playbooks.
23. It is estimated that limited literacy skills cost business and taxpayers $20 billion in lost wages, profits, and productivity annually.
24. A bibliokleptomaniac is someone who steals books. One of the most famous bibliokleptomaniacs is Stephen Blumberg, who stole more than 23,000 rare books from 268 libraries. He had various methods for acquiring his estimated 20 million dollar collection, including climbing through ventilation ducts and elevator shafts.
25. The term “bookworm” derives from tiny insects who feed on the binding of books.
Electric Lime - email sent for Puzzle #77
oooohhhh Sliders :DAtomic tangerine
#76
Puzzle 75For the Team Mauvelous!! It wasn't that mean :-D
Find a member who likes to cook.
That is, of course, when not reading a book.
Solve the scramble from A-Z.
The gift of a cupcake is waiting for thee.
PUZZLE #78: ~ Cooking and Cookware A to Z Challenge ~
Do this when you need a break from reading.
You have until the end of the 7% Solution Challenge.
You can submit it as a Team, or send your best player to collect your cupcake.
Please DO NOT post solution here. Mail to ratminichallenges@gmail.com
Find the items or cooking terms from A-Z. There are not double words this time. There is only one word per letter of the alphabet; therefore, when you solve a word that starts with "s," there won't be another word that starts with "s."
Remember, these words relate to the title and challenge :
~ Cooking and Cookware A to Z Challenge. ~
1.) orama
2.) llndaaoehsi
3.) voecmriaw
4.) anbnaemlgc
5.) nlujniee
6.) nfcdiaehof
7.) iettenso
8.) ssobcouoc
9.) uniqoa
10.) ataftrit
11.) cistroettnue
12.) zlierdz
13.) alcrooretp
14.) imuslyfe
15.) sacld
16.) rveaneel
17.) eivttr
18.) ludnmo
19.) iverax
20.) siseocihsvy
21.) hwisk
22.) worary
23.) angchae
24.) dnake
25.) izbckaew
26.) nsfnuiio
Team Mauvelous - Puzzle #78Puzzle #78 submitted for Team Mauvelous
Mod
Our apologies. We have been delinquent in keeping up with awarding cupcakes for all the DQs written in all the "buddy reads" and BOMs. (There are a lot!) If you feel you earned a cupcake for one of these, please let us know in this thread. Providing a link would be nice, but not mandatory.
Question about PUZZLE #77:Are these just random facts from the internet? I'm totally stuck and maybe not looking in the right place.
Mod
Twenty pieces for a cover by Tolstoy.
Your puzzle skills you'll need to employ.
We hope you're jumping and saying, "Oh, boy!"
When you receive a cupcake, with joy.
PUZZLE #79: - Twenty piece Slider puzzle is here. - (Behind Enemy Lines: B'dazzled Blue's Zara) Okay to post in thread. Please take a screen print and show the "Very good, you win." box. Please do NOT just post the bookcover.
PUZZLE #78: - Purple Mnts Majesty Sent
PUZZLE #79: B'dazzled Blue - Zara(thank you for doing one of these of what has become probably my most favourite book/story this year). I also got it done really quickly this time. Yippee!!!
@Mods - I figured it out!! Never mind :)
Mod
Great!
Cadet Blue - Puzzle #79
I hope you are musically inclined,
Gone to the city, enjoyed a show, and dinned.
It will help you solve part one of three.
And earn "bouncing" cupcakes for thee.
Please DO NOT post solution here. Mail to ratminichallenges@gmail.com With Puzzle # in subject line. Be sure to tell me what Team you are assigned, though I have most of you memorized!
Doublets are word-link puzzles first created by Lewis Carroll. Changing only one letter at a time, and using the clues along the side, go from “king” to “city”... or vice versa!
Yes, you will earn three "bouncing cupcakes" for this series of doublets!
PUZZLE #80 - Doublet from Broadway Part 1 - “King to City”•
KING
• Hong _ _ _ _
• 1983 Best Play: Torch _ _ _ _ Trilogy
• 2006 Nominee: The Wedding _ _ _ _ e r
• Trigonometric function
• 1958 Nominee West _ _ _ _ Story
• Vast
• 2004 Best Play: I am My Own _ _ _ _
• 1997 Nominee: The _ _ _ _
• 1976 Best Musical: A Chorus _ _ _ _
• Fluff
• 1978 Best Musical: _ _ _’ _ Misbehavin’ (American slang)
• 18th letter of the Arabic alphabet
• 1937 revue “_ _ _ _ and Needles”
• Half of a quart
• British Prime Minister William _ _ _ _
• Sympathy
• CITY
I think there is something wrong in this puzzle !
This cover is covered with more than one leaf.
And the story's about a "good" thief.
I hope solving it will be brief,
that it doesn't give you any grief.
PUZZLE #81: - Twenty piece Slider puzzle is here. - (Behind Enemy Lines: Blast Off Bronze's Monica) Okay to post in thread. Please take a screen print and show the "Very good, you win." box. Please do NOT just post the bookcover.
Puzzle #80 emailed for PMMPuzzle #81 for PMM
18th letter of the Arabic alphabet...
is causing some of you to fret,
depending on which country you're from.
But please don't be glum.
AINS is the answer.
In Puzzle #80, it works as the advancer.
Another in the Broadway theme,
To get "bouncing" cupcakes for your Team.
This is, indeed, the second one.
We certainly hope you're having fun!
Please DO NOT post solution here. Mail to ratminichallenges@gmail.com With Puzzle # in subject line. Be sure to tell me what Team you are assigned, though I have most of you memorized!
Doublets are word-link puzzles first created by Lewis Carroll. Changing only one letter at a time, and using the clues along the side, go from “city” to “rove”... or vice versa!
Yes, you will earn three "bouncing cupcakes" for this series of doublets!
PUZZLE #82 - Doublet from Broadway Part 2 - “City to Rove”
• CITY
• Quote
• Flying toy
• 1949 Best Musical: Kiss Me, _ _ _ _
• _ _ _ _ Blanchett (actress)
• 1983 Best Musical: _ _ _ _
• Scoundrels
• Boys
• 1959 Best Musical: My Fair _ _ _ _
• Frilly
• Ornamental fabric
• Body of water
• 2003 Best Play: _ _ _ _ Me Out
• Domesticated
• 1955 Best Musical: The Pajama _ _ _ _
• Bestowed
• Wash
• 1995 Best Play: _ _ _ _! Valour! Compassion!
• ROVE
Puzzle 81 sent via email from Team LJB
Puzzle 81 for Mauvelous#77, #82 Sent via email.
Electric LimePuzzle #79
Puzzle #80 - email sent
Puzzle #81
Puzzle #82 - email sent
Electric Lime - email sent for puzzle #78
E-mailed 78, 80 and 82 for Pewter Blue.And here's 79 too.
I hope you like the shape of a star.
Though in a puzzle, it makes it bizarre.
Before you know it, there you are:
Another cupcake, but no cigar.
PUZZLE #83: Jigsaw puzzle "NBRC July/August Buddy Reads" - here.
Be sure to change the total pieces under "Change Cut" to "79 Piece Stars."
Okay to post in thread.
Puzzle #83 - PMM
Of the Broadway theme, this is the last.
We hope you've all had a blast.
For getting any "chunkster"
To **poof** count twice, if you prefer.
Please DO NOT post solution here. Mail to ratminichallenges@gmail.com With Puzzle # in subject line. Be sure to tell me what Team you are assigned, though I have most of you memorized!
Doublets are word-link puzzles first created by Lewis Carroll. Changing only one letter at a time, and using the clues along the side, go from “rove” to “poof!”... or vice versa!
Yes, you will earn three "bouncing cupcakes" for this series of doublets!
PUZZLE #84 - Doublet from Broadway Part 3 - “Rove to Poof!”
• ROVE
• 1951 Best Play: The _ _ _ _ Tattoo
• Misplace
• 1991 Best Play: _ _ _ _ in Yonkers
• 1997 Best Play: The _ _ _ _ Night of Ballyhoo
• Time gone by
• Portion
• 2012 Best Play: Clybourne _ _ _ _
• Dog utterance
• Saloons
• Coves
• 2006 Best Play: The History _ _ _ _
• Sounds of contempt
• Cow sounds
• 1954 Best Play: The Teahouse of the August _ _ _ _
• Blessing
• 2011 Best Musical: The _ _ _ _ of Mormon
• Chess castle
• 1965 Best Musical: Fiddler on the _ _ _ _
• POOF!
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Puzzle #76