All Questions # 529: “The Same Begin”

Last week’s challenge

Start with the last name of a live popular American author. Change one letter to I and rearrange the letters to name the author’s famous typeface. What are the words?

Answer: If you start with SEDARIS, you can write DIARYS.

THIS WEEK’S CATEGORY: THE SAME START

Questions in the broadcast: We are a couple of weeks away from the new year when many people decide to start a new beginning. Unfortunately, our questions this week have not embraced that spirit of change: each question has a two-word answer and both words begin with the same letter.

1. Which cartoon character, whose real name is Patricia Reichardt, debuted on August 22, 1966, in a tape where she asks if a boy named Linus is cute?
2. The building, designed by John Augustus Roebling, was opened on May 24, 1883, and at the time of its opening was the longest span of its type in the world, until a similar structure, about a mile north, passed it by two meters?
3. What is meant by a hidden message or image that literally means objects that can be seen in a 1975 film Rocky Horror Picture Show, because the actors and the crew didn’t find everything they hid during the hunt?
4. The song Bohemian Rhapsody reached number one on the UK singles chart in November 1975. Nine weeks later, it fell off the top with a song called Bohemian Rhapsody lyrics. What song is that?
5. The international rules of the game stipulate that one of the main equipment must weigh 2.7 grams, be 40 millimeters in diameter, and bounce to a height of 24 to 26 centimeters when dropped on a piece of steel 2.7 grams. 305 millimeters?

Extra points

1. Who was the first player to sign in the WNBA, where he played in the Houston Comets for 11 seasons, during which he became the first three-time WNBA MVP?
2. Which two words fill in the blanks in this explanation from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s: But be careful, because they can always ___ ___ return you four times the amount, and then you have to either answer a question or take a physical challenge.

This week’s challenge

Start with MATCHING LETTERS. Rearrange the letters so that you write an eight-letter word for something found in the human body and a seven-letter word that tells you what you can do to that part of the body to avoid damaging it. What are the words?

ANSWERS
Questions in the broadcast
1. Peppermint steak
2. Brooklyn Bridge
3. Easter egg
4. “Mamma Mia”
5. Table tennis

Extra points

1. Sheryl Swoopes
2. Double plenty