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08/15/07 Grif.Net – Words at Play, 3

08/15/07 Grif.Net – Words at Play, 3

PALINDROMES. How many can you identify from their definition.
Example: First name of the Grif.Net guru? “BOB”

1. Baby’s napkin
2. First woman
3. Monetary unit of India (and woman’s name)
4. Property paper
5. German king (and man’s name)
6. Twelve o’clock
7. Blow your horn
8. Chick vocalization
9. Air/highway monitor
10. Flat
11. Send a patient to a specialist
12. Not duets
13. Eskimo watercraft
14. Basic doctrine
15. Related to government
16. More like a beet
Bonus: Decorate the wall a second time

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The REAL phrase is in CAPS – how did YOU do??

1. From “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” complete the following:
“Water, water everywhere . . .
NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK

2. From Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, what words follow “Alas, poor Yorick.”
I KNEW HIM, HORATIO

3. What is the first line of “The Old Oaken Bucket”?
HOW DEAR TO THIS HEART ARE THE SCENES OF MY CHILDHOOD

4. Finish the line:
“Breaths there . . ”
THE MAN, WITH SOUL SO DEAD

5. What grows “from little acorns”?
TALL OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW

6. In the childhood nursery song, what follows “Backward, turn backward . .
..”
O TIME, IN YOUR FLIGHT

7. Finish the line
“Twas the night before Christmas . . ”
WHEN ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE

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Dr Bob Griffin, www.grif.net
1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given