Brain Celebri-teasers: Week #3
By Brian | January 17, 2011
Welcome back to Brain Celebri-teasers. This is Week #3. Here’s this week’s puzzle:
| Week #3 | |
| Category: | Politics |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Clue: | For a while, these two women shared a twin billing in Washington |
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Week #3 introduces a new category – Politics, but returns to the “Easy” difficulty level. Only one point for the winner, but don’t slack off – every point will count as we approach the end of the year!
Remember – the solution will be posted on Thursday, so you have 3-4 days to guess. Put your answer in the comments section – first comment (by timestamp) wins.
Now that the contest is over, you can click here to see the answer.
Good luck!
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Brain Celebri-teasers: Solution
By Brian | January 13, 2011
Welcome back to Brain Celebri-teasers. It’s time to reveal the solution to our Week #2 puzzle:
| Week #2 | |
| Category: | Music |
| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Clue: | For many, these two ladies represent the country’s best… |
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| Both Taylor and Carrie have won Best Artist honors at the Country Music Awards, making them the “country’s best,” as it said in the clue. Carrie, of course, also won the top prize on American Idol, so she’s been the country’s best in that sense as well. | |
The winner this week was Ilya!
It’s occurring to me, two weeks in, that multiple people are getting the puzzle right each week. And while there should be a prize for being first, correct answers should be recognized. So, I’m tweaking the standings a little to reflect both points and correct answers. Don’t worry, though – at the end of the year, most points still wins!
So, that being said, after two weeks, the standings are as follows:
| Player | Points | Correct Answers |
| Ilya | 2 | 2 |
| Mike | 1 | 1 |
| Jim | 0 | 1 |
| Jeff Porten | 0 | 1 |
| Konstantin | 0 | 1 |
| Jason | 0 | 0 |
Thanks for playing, everyone! Remember to check back on Monday for next week’s puzzle!
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Brain Celebri-teasers: Week #2
By Brian | January 10, 2011
Welcome back to Brain Celebri-teasers. This is Week #2. Here’s this week’s puzzle:
| Week #2 | |
| Category: | Music |
| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Clue: | For many, these two ladies represent the country’s best… |
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OK, so in Week #2, we’re moving up to our first Medium difficulty puzzle. Obviously, the difficulty levels are subjective, but I’m trying to define “Medium” as a puzzle in which one of the two people may be fairly obvious, but the other may be harder to figure out. Because it’s harder, two points will be awarded to the commenter with the first correct response…
Remember – the solution will be posted on Thursday, so you have 3-4 days to guess. Put your answer in the comments section – first comment (by timestamp) wins.
Now that the contest is over, you can click here to see the answer.
Good luck!
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The Young Trumpet Player Within the Crowd
By Brian | January 7, 2011
Continuing my recent tradition of having very little to say and instead filling space with pictures, I present this (predominantly for my Penn friends). Can you spot the ten-year old amongst the slew of college students? Makes a father proud, it does…
Two notes:
First: his brother, who also makes his father proud, was below and to the right of the frame, teaching himself the drum parts to all the Penn songs (age 8).
Second: the Penn Band Sousaphones rock…
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Brain Celebri-teasers: Solution
By Brian | January 6, 2011
Welcome back to Brain Celebri-teasers. It’s time to reveal the solution to our Week #1 puzzle:
| Practice Week #2 | |
| Category: | Sports |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Clue: | These two guys were known throughout the sports world for their biting commentary |
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| Muhammad Ali was as famous for sparring with the likes of Howard Cosell as he was for his boxing in the ring. He was, after all, “The Greatest,” and was never shy about saying so. Mike Tyson, on the other hand, was more known for commentary about biting, rather than “biting commentary,” per se. Just ask Evander Holyfield. | |
The winner this week was Mike!
After one week, the standings are, well, rather straight forward:
| Mike | 1 |
| 4 Others | 0 |
Thanks for playing, everyone! Remember to check back on Monday for next week’s puzzle!
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Brain Celebri-teasers: Week #1
By Brian | January 3, 2011
Welcome back to Brain Celebri-teasers. This is Week #1. Here’s this week’s puzzle:
| Week #1 | |
| Category: | Sports |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Clue: | These two guys were known throughout the sports world for their biting commentary |
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Still going pretty easy on you for Week #1. Get your points in now, as future weeks will get harder.
Remember – the solution will be posted on Thursday, so you have 3-4 days to guess. Put your answer in the comments section – first comment (by timestamp) wins.
Now that the contest is over, you can click here to see the answer.
Good luck!
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Brain Celebri-teasers: Solution – Practice Round #2
By Brian | December 30, 2010
Welcome back to Brain Celebri-teasers. It’s time to reveal the answer to this, our second practice round before the contest begins in earnest in 2011.
| Practice Week #2 | |
| Category: | Movies/TV |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Clue: | Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good (and clear) night |
| Answer: | |
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| OK, so this was a little cheesy (and a little claymated). But what do you expect? It’s just a practice round. The real fun starts next week. ;-) | |
Under normal circumstances, this is where I’d post the winner’s name and the current standings, but since last week’s game included an immediate answer reveal, and this week is still practice, we’re not keeping score just yet.
But next week, it’s on. Oh yeah, it’s on…
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Brain Celebri-teasers: Practice Round #2
By Brian | December 27, 2010
Welcome back to Brain Celebri-teasers. This is the second of two practice rounds before the contest begins in earnest in 2011. Here’s this week’s puzzle:
| Practice Week #2 | |
| Category: | Movies/TV |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Clue: | Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good (and clear) night |
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This week, we’ll follow the normal pattern of revealing the answer on Thursday, so you have 3-4 days to guess. Put your answer in the comments section – first comment (by timestamp) wins.
Good luck, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to everybody!
Now that the contest is over, you can click here to see the answer.
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Unlikely Twins, Part XXXIII
By Brian | December 21, 2010
December 21st shows us that your birthday certainly doesn’t determine how many people like you:
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| Ray Romano, Everybody Loved Raymond… |
Joseph Stalin, Nobody Liked Joseph… |
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Announcing Brain Celebri-teasers!
By Brian | December 20, 2010
Ladies and Gentlemen, an announcement: I’ve finally found a way to combine my desire to get better at Photoshop with my goal of posting regular updates to my blog. In other words, I’m starting a web contest!
The contest is called Brain Celebri-teasers and here’s how it works:
Early on each Monday in 2011, I will post a picture which combines two famous faces. The people involved will be drawn (no pun intended) from one of four categories: Politics, Movies/TV, Sports, or Music. Each week, I will announce the category, the difficulty level (Easy, Medium, Hard) and provide a brief clue. Readers will be asked to post their answers in the comments section on that post, and the first comment (as determined by timestamp) will be declared that week’s winner. The winner will receive one point for answering an easy puzzle, two points for a medium puzzle, and three points for a hard puzzle. Standings will be kept and a winner will be announced at the end of the year.
To make it a little more convenient, I will put a page break in the post just after the picture, so if you come directly to I Should Be Sleeping each Monday, you won’t be in danger of reading someone else’s answer in the comments. RSS readers will also be well protected. If you’re coming from elsewhere (e.g., from Facebook), though, you’ll just have to control yourself and not look at others’ answers while you’re thinking about your own (I recommend strategic use of the scroll bars).
Of course, just because there are answers down there doesn’t mean they’re right! I will announce the answer and that week’s winner on each Thursday, so I encourage everyone to play even after the guesses start to roll in. Heck – there are no prizes involved here, so playing is just as much fun even if you don’t win, right?
Anyway, seeing as how today is Monday, let’s do an example (I’ll post another example next Monday as well, and then we’ll be into the real contest after the New Year). Here we go:
| Practice Week #1 | |
| Category: | Politics |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Clue: | This couple made big news organizing the community of Washington, DC |
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Got your guess? Ready to post to the comments section? OK, great – click through the break to see the answer (since this is a practice round, I’ll reveal the answer right away. Normally, you’d have to wait until Thursday).
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