Humbugardy: Anagram Lines for 800
2005-10-14 21:16
This is round 2 of Humbugardy. I’m your host, Alex Scorebard.
His TV show brought together a man who wrote an anagram of
“Live long, gunman”
with a man who was one
“Live long, gunman”
with a man who was one
Note: In this round, searching the web is allowed.
| Numb3r5 | Sudoku | 6th Degree Quotes | What and Where | Anagram Lines | Subjective |
| 200 | 200 | 200 | 200 | For The Turnstiles | 200 |
| 400 | For The Turnstiles | 400 | 400 | Joe | 400 |
| 600 | 600 | 600 | 600 | 600 | 600 |
| 800 | 800 | 800 | 800 | argosy | 800 |
| 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 | For The Turnstiles | 1000 |
1. This is purely a wild guess, but how about Harold Pinter?
2. Who is Tom Warburton?
3. another guess
Who is Gene Autry?
4. Who is Gene Kelly?
5. Who is Chuck Connors?
6. Thankfully just one more anagram after this. I love the Anagram of the Day. Hate this category.
Who was Johnny Cash?
7. Darn it, I figure it out on my own only to see that someone else got it. Drat!
But I will put in my guess of
Who was Clark Jones?
8. No one has it yet.
9. 1. I can't guess again
2. I can't for the life of me figure out why a certain person is wrong
10. Who do you think is right, Bob?
Before I picked my guess, I narrowed it down to my answer, your's and argosy's.
11. Well, I suppose it's possible that there's more than one correct answer to this. Email me your explanation, and if I buy it, I'll give it to you.
12. Bob sent me his explanation, which I'll accept, which means that argosy deserves the points.
I wrote an ambiguous sentence, hence the confusion. I meant the word "one" to refer back to the word "anagram", not to the word "gunman". The answer I was looking for was Dick Cavett.
Bob's explanation:
Anagram "Live long, gunman" is "Van Lingle Mungo" which leads you to Dave Frishberg.
Dave Frishberg did some music for "The Funny Side". One of the regulars on the show was Burt Mustin, who on often played old guys in
Westerns. The show was hosted by Gene Kelly (argosy's guess) and directed by Clark Jones (my guess).
13. argosy may choose the next answer...
14. Wow, ok. Um, hurray for technicalities, I guess. (Thanks, Bob). So what was the actual answer supposed to be?
Alex, I'll take 6th degree quotes for 200. (BTW, I was actually on Jeopardy. This is MUCH harder.)
15. The actual answer as quoted in 12 was "Dick Cavett" and I have no idea why that would be the answer.
16. Frishberg and Van Lingle Mungo (the man who was the anagram) appeared together on the Dick Cavett show, as recounted here.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/vanlinglemungo.shtml
I interpreted the clue the same way everyone else did, but I'm a bit chagrined that I couldn't at least figure out the anagram - I had been using "VanLingleMungo" as my password on baseballtoaster! (I have changed it so I could post this, of course).
17. Argosy topped that bit of esoterica with even more esoterica!