Whitney Houston Puzzle Solution

Today Whitney was laid to rest. As I watched part of it, I felt that it was a fitting tribute to her. At the grocery store, a man said that he thought the televised funeral was wrong, but I think it gives closure to millions of her fans. However, I agree with him that the tabloids didn't need to publish the pictures of Whitney when she was wasted. I wonder if they use a photo manipulation program, like Photoshop, to "enhance" her condition.

On a personal note, I have been frustrated with my blog posts. This was supposed to be Thursday's post. Due to complications that I do not fully understand (yet!), it turned into Saturday's post! As I've said before, blogging is more complicated than it seems and I am learning more each day.

Here's the word list to the Whitney puzzle. I'm posting the solution grid at Peppy Puzzle Printouts so if you missed a word, you can hunt for it without having the solution in sight. Did you find 47 words?

1.     ALBUM

2.     ALL AT ONCE

3.     AMERICAN

4.     ARETHA FRANKLIN

5.     AWARDS

6.     BILLBOARD

7.     BLUES

8.     CHOIR

9.     CINDERELLA

10. CISSY

11. COSMOPOLITAN

12. DANCE

14. DEE DEE

15. DIONNE

16. DOLLY PARTON

17. ELIZABETH

18. EMMY

19. GLAMOUR

20. GOOD LOVE

21. GOSPEL

22. GRAMMY

23. GREATEST

24. JOHN

25. MEZZO SOPRANO

26. MOMENT

27. NEWARK

28. NOTHING

29. POP

30. PRODUCER

31. RHYTHM

32. ROYAL ENGAGEMENT

33. RUN TO YOU

34. SAVING

35. SEVENTEEN

36. SOUL

37. SPARKLE

38. STAR SPANGLED BANNER

39. SUPER BOWL XXV

40. THE BODYGUARD

41. THE CHEETAH GIRLS

42. THE PREACHERS WIFE

43. THE PRINCESS DIARIES

44. WAITING TO EXHALE

45. WARWICK

46. WEEK

47. WHEN IN SPAIN

I hope you enjoyed this puzzle. Please feel free to drop me a note in the comments box.

Happy Puzzling!
Terrie

The Whitney Houston Puzzle

The world lost a beautiful voice on February 11th. Here are some facts about Whitney Houston that you may not have known.

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was born to John and Cissy Houston, who was a very talented soul and gospel singer. Whitney followed in her mother's footsteps as a singer. Over the course of her career, she sang gospel, pop, soul, rhythm & blues, and dance. She was also a successful model, actress, and film producer. Among her awards are six Grammy Awards,  30 Billboard Music Awards, and  two Emmy Awards. She won 22 American Music Awards, too.

Like the Clooney family (Nick, Rosemary, and George Clooney including the Ferrer branch of the family: José, Miguel, and Rafael), Whitney's family were very talented. Her cousins were the Warwick family (Dionne and Dee Dee) and her godmother was the extraordinary soul singer Aretha Franklin.

Whitney appeared in five films for theater or television.

The Bodyguard (1992)

Waiting to Exhale (1995)

The Preacher's Wife (1996)

Cinderella 1997

Sparkle is her newest movie and is to be released in 2012.

When she was in her late teens, she modeled for illustrious magazines like Seventeen, Glamour, Cosmopolitan. Her exotic looks fascinated viewers, adding to her success as a model.

On January 27, 1991, Whitney sang "The Star Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XXV and many consider it to be the best rendition of all of the Super Bowl performances. She was a mezzo-soprano, meaning that she was a middle soprano. She added a strength and emotion to her songs, probably a result of having started as a gospel singer and  soloist.

In a single week, her soundtrack album of The Bodyguard (1992) sold one million copies. The album continues to be a good seller and contains the hit I Will Always Love You, written by Dolly Parton.

In 1992, Whitney married Bobby Brown. It was a stormy union and the couple had an on-again-off-again relationship. They had one daughter: Bobbi Kristina. Whitney filed for divorce late in 2006.

 

After acting in The Bodyguard, Whitney began producing and co-producing movies. These included:

The Princess Diaries 2001

The Cheetah Girls 2003

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement 2004

The Cheetah Girls 2: When in Spain 2006

Some of her popular songs are:

Saving All My Love For You

Greatest Love Of All

One Moment In Time

I Have Nothing

Run To You

You Give Good Love

All At Once

For this puzzle, the bolded, italicized words ("Elizabeth") are the word search words. Go through the article and find the words that are in the puzzle, then seek them out in the grid!

(Note: only the bolded, italicized words in the song titles are in the word search game. For example, Saving is the only word in Saving All My Love for You.)

The grid was not viewable in this blog setting. Please go to my companion site to print the grid. Here is a link to Peppy Puzzler Printouts.

Happy Puzzling!

Terrie

(Note: I gathered this info from several sites, including the official Whitney Houston site at http://www.whitneyhouston.com/us/home ; wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston ; and the VH1 site http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/houston_whitney/artist.jhtml .)

Abe on the Natchez Trace Solution

Lincoln's picture is from Karen's Whimsy. Thank you, Karen, for making these images available to everyone.

Here are the clues and explanation of the clues. Does your answer match mine? If it doesn't, the explanation should help you out.

Go to the original puzzle to find interesting links that will show you about the Natchez Trace and other things.

Abe on the Natchez Trace

A kid's logic puzzle

Young Abe was happy to have the money. He had worked hard. First, he made the ferryboat and loaded it with freshly harvested crops. He knew that the crops would bring a better price in New Orleans. They had! He sold his ferryboat for the lumber. Ferryboats were designed to float down the river but could not go against the current to return up the river.

On his trip, he met several people who were walking the trail, too. Along the way, five times he was lucky enough to eat lunch with a person who told funny jokes. (President Lincoln liked good jokes!) Only one person in each group told the jokes. Each of the groups had come from a different town that Abe would be visiting on his way home (one town was Port Gibson, Mississippi). Can you match the joke teller with his or her last name and the town he or she was from?

The girls are Emma and Sarah. The boys were Adam, David, and Peter.

 1.     The person from French Camp, Mississippi was Mister or Miss Carson (who was not Emma or Adam).

2.     Peter and Mister Pane were from Collinwood, Tennessee, and Tuscumbia, Alabama, in some order.

3.     The hiker from Tuscumbia, who wasn't Adam, wasn't Mister or Miss Samson.

4.     The person from Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee,  was Mister or Miss Watson.

5.     Mrs. Dalton was traveling with her husband and his family and told a joke about a dog and a frog.

Clue 1 says that Carson was from French Camp. Carson isn't Adam or Emma (clue 1). This tells us that Adam and Emma were not from French Camp. Clue 2 tells us that Peter isn't Pane, but Pane was a man (mister). He was Adam or David. Also by clue 2, Peter was from Collinwood or Tuscumbia and Pane was from Collinwood or Tuscumbia. By clue 3, Samson isn't from Tuscumbia and the one from Tuscumbia wasn't Adam. Watson was from Leiper’s Fork (clue 4). By clue 5, Dalton was a woman. Time for some logic!

Peter was from Tuscumbia or Collinwood (clue 2) so he wasn't Carson (French Camp, clue 1), Pane (clue 2), Watson (Leiper’s Fork, clue 4), or Dalton (woman, clue 5). He was Samson. Samson wasn't from French Camp (Carson), Tuscumbia (clue 2), or Leiper’s Fork (Watson, clue 4) so Peter wasn't from French Camp, Tuscumbia, or Leiper’s Fork. By clue 3, he wasn't from Tuscumbia; he was from Collinwood. By clue 2, Pane was from Tuscumbia. Now we see that Dalton was from Port Gibson. Adam wasn't from Collinwood (Peter), French Camp (clue 1), Tuscumbia (clue 03), or Port Gibson (clue 5). He was from Leiper’s Fork, which was Watson's town, so he was Adam Watson. Mister Pane wasn't Peter (Samson) so he was David. Sarah, then, was Carson. Emma was Miss Dalton. The answer is:

Adam	Watson	Leiper’s Fork
David	Pane	Tuscumbia
Emma	Dalton	Port Gibson
Peter	Samson	Collinwood
Sarah	Carson	French Camp

A Conversation About Valentine's Day Candy Hearts

Ah… Valentine's Day! Time for big red hearts, luscious chocolates, and, of course, little heart candies.

The New England Confectionery Company (NECCO®) produces 8,000,000,000 (eight billion!) Sweethearts® Conversation Hearts each Valentine's Day season. In 1866, Daniel Chase invented the process of printing the sayings directly on candy pieces. NECCO®, which Daniel's brother Oliver established in 1847, began printing messages on the candy in the late 1800s. The candies became popular in the early 1900s, and the company produced them in several sizes and shapes, from horseshoes to postcards.

On a whim, I got a little box of Valentine candies. The words on the conversation hearts differ from company to company and even year to year. Here's a little word search that I wrote using the words on my candies. The remaining, unused letter will spell out the origin of the modern conversation heart. It was popular in the late 1800s so the modern heart candy isn't so modern after all!

Ask Me
Be Mine
Cutie Pie
First Kiss
Hug Me
It's Love
Lover Boy
Love You
Miss You
My Guy
Only You
Romeo
So Fine
True Love
U R Cute

Go to my companion site, Peppy Puzzler Printouts, to print the grid and word list.

It's not too late to whip up a special valentine for your loved one. Here's a clever idea for a child's card. Color one to match a child's (or Grandpa's) dog! Crystal's site is always interesting. See her valentine dog here.

Wanda shares this fancy card, but you can easily adapt it by using conversation hearts and strips of colored construction paper. Be sure that you give the recipient some edible hearts; once you glue the candy hearts to the card, they are no longer safe to eat! See the card here.

Happy Valentine's Day and Happy puzzling!

Terrie

The IN Puzzle Solution

1.     INANE silliness, waste of time

2.     INBOARD boat engine built into the hull

3.     INBORN inherent from birth

4.     INCLUDE: incorporate _ _ _ _ _ _ _

5.     INCUS anvil-shaped bone in the ear

6.     INDENT to make a dent in something

7.     INDIE an independent company in the film industry

8.     INDIUM a silver-colored, rare metallic element used in electroplating

9.     INDUCTEE person enrolled into the military or other organization

10. INEPT incompetent

11. INERT unable to move or not moving

12. INGOT a metal casting, typically in a brick shape

13. INHALE breathe in _ _ _ _ _ _

14. INITIATE to introduce a person to something new

15. INLET fabric or lace sewn into a garment's seam for decoration or alteration

16. INNATE relating to the traits that a person or animal is born with

17. INNER internal

18. INNING a round of play in a baseball or softball game

19. INNOCENT guiltless

20. INNS places where travelers sleep and often also eat

21. INNUENDO a remark that insinuates impropriety or similar suggestion of uncouthness

22. INORGANIC not composed of vegetable or animal

23. INSPECT look over carefully

24. INSPIRE  encourage or enthuse _ _ _ _ _ _ _

25. INSTALL to put equipment or software into place

26. INTENT determined

27. INTERMEZZO a short musical composition,

28. INTO enthusiastic about

29. INTRAMURAL inside the tissue of the wall of a blood vessel or other cavity

30. INTROSPECTION self assessment of your thoughts, intentions, and feelings

31. INTROVERT shy person

32. INTUIT get a feeling impression, usually without forethought

33. INTUITION the act of intuiting

34. INUNDATE overwhelm

35. INURE to accustom a person or animal to something unlikable, such as pain or trouble

Happy Puzzling!
Terrie

Happy Birthday, Abe Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln's birthday is normally lost in the midst of the hullabaloo of getting the right Valentine's gift or setting up the perfect date night. It almost seems appropriate that there is no fanfare for this quiet unassuming man. Yet, if you ask our modern presidents and leaders, most say they admire this backwoods lawyer.

Lincoln's words, inscribed on a wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., seem appropriate for today's troubles:

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "

Here is a kids' logic puzzles. If you have never done a logic puzzle, go to my companion site (Peppy Puzzler Printouts) and learn how. For your convenience, the link will open in a new window. That site is where you will find the printable grid for each puzzle.

I have taken the road of artistic license with these puzzles — they are fictitious, but based on facts.

Abe, the Ferryboat, and the Natchez Trace

When Abe was 17, he worked on a ferryboat. He enjoyed the river and work so much that he constructed a flatboat when he was 19 and took a load of farm crops down the Mississippi to New Orleans. He sold the boat in New Orleans and walked home via the Natchez Trace. When he got home, gave his earnings to his father. (from http://millercenter.org/president/lincoln/essays/biography/2 )

The Natchez Trace is a very long walk — about 450 miles (725 km) from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. Young Abe was not finished with his trip at Nashville. He still had to go about 350 miles to get home. The full trip home was almost 800 miles long!

See The Natchez Trace if you want to see a picture of what the trail looked like. https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Natchez_Trace

Abe on the Natchez Trace

A kid's logic puzzle

Young Abe was happy to have the money. He had worked hard. First, he made the ferryboat and loaded it with freshly harvested crops. He knew that the crops would bring a better price in New Orleans. They had! He sold his ferryboat for the lumber. Ferryboats were designed to float down the river but could not go against the current to return up the river.

On his trip, he met several people who were walking the trail, too. Along the way, five times he was lucky enough to eat lunch with a person who told funny jokes. (President Lincoln liked good jokes!) Only one person in each group told the jokes. Each of the groups had come from a different town that Abe would be visiting on his way home (one town was PortGibson, Mississippi ). Can you match the joke teller with his or her last name and the town he or she was from?

The girls are Emma and Sarah. The boys were Adam, David, and Peter.

1.     The person from French Camp, Mississippi was Mister or Miss Carson (who was not Emma or Adam).

2.     Peter and Mister Pane were from Collinwood,Tennessee,   and Tuscumbia, Alabama , in some order.

3.     The hiker from Tuscumbia, who wasn't Adam, wasn't Mister or Miss Samson.

4.     The person from Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee, was Mister or Miss Watson.

5.     Mrs. Dalton was traveling with her husband and his family and told a joke about a dog and a frog.

The grid is found at Peppy Puzzler Printouts. Follow this link.