Belated Avian Quiz Answer – March 25, 2011

Some travel and visits to the hospital have delayed this posting.  All is well now, and so here are the answers to last week’s quiz.

QUIZ:

The clues:

–    Take a beverage produced by a large distributor.
–    The beverage’s name is 10 letters long.
–    You will see that the first 5 letters and the last 5 letters have 3 letters in common.
–    Delete these 6 letters, leaving 4 letters remaining.
–    Rearrange these 4 remaining letters and you will end up with a rare avian visitor to North America.

Working backwards, as suggested, was a good way to begin answering the quiz.  A rare avian visitor to North America with the name containing only 4 letters.  SMEW is the correct choice.  Out of how many, I do not know.  Add to that six letters, two instances of three different letters.  The letters are ART.  Yielding SMARTWATER as the correct answer.

A huge congratulations to Derek for getting the correct answer!

EXTRA CREDIT:

The question: What do NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST, LEFT and RIGHT have in common, but not UP or DOWN?

Clare got A correct answer (all the words contain the letter “T”).  Congratulations to Clare, who gets partial extra credit.

However I was looking for a more diabolical answer.   Thorn, Shout, Seat, Stew, Felt, Girth … all are anagrams of the indicated words.  Up and Down do not have anagrams.

Until next time …