{"id":2021022,"date":"2025-09-14T12:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2021022"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:28:35","slug":"sunday-puzzle-geographical-people-kgou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sunday-puzzle-geographical-people-kgou\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle: Geographical people | KGOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"\">On-air challenge<\/h3>\n<p>\nEvery answer is a famous person whose first or last name is geographical &#8212; city, state, country, or otherwise. Ex. Novelist Jack \u00a0&#8211;&gt; \u00a0Jack LONDON (&#8220;The Call of the Wild&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>\n1. Actor River<br \/>\n<br \/>2. Actor Gooding Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\n3. Artist O&#8217;Keeffe<\/p>\n<p>\n4. Media personality Hilton<\/p>\n<p>\n5. Composer Irving<\/p>\n<p>\n6. Actress Fanning<\/p>\n<p>\n7. Actress Ferrera<\/p>\n<p>\n8. Adventurer in film Jones<\/p>\n<p>\n9. Spy in film Powers<\/p>\n<p>\n10. Video game traveler Carmen<\/p>\n<p>\n11. Artist Pollock<\/p>\n<p>\n12. [Phonetic:] Jazz pianist Chick<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\">Last week&#8217;s challenge<\/h3>\n<p>\nLast week&#8217;s challenge came from Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minn. Think of a popular commercial name that ends with the names of two male animals one after the other. If you have the right commercial name, its first six letters can be rearranged to spell the name of an N.F.L. team. What is it?<\/p>\n<p>\nChallenge answer: Instagram \u00a0&#8211;&gt; \u00a0stag &amp; ram &#8211;&gt; Giants<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\">Winner<\/h3>\n<p>\nChristopher Hoffman of Wellington, Florida.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\">This week&#8217;s challenge<\/h3>\n<p>\nThis week&#8217;s challenge comes from Bob Weisz.\u00a0In a certain classic film, the protagonist uses two weapons. The name of one of these has 10 letters. If you take its first letter and last six letters, you can rearrange them all to name the other weapon this protagonist uses, in seven letters. What weapons are these?<\/p>\n<p>If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it here by Thursday, Sept. 18 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: include a phone number where we can reach you.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '130719443711',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.kgou.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On-air challenge Every answer is a famous person whose first or last name is geographical &#8212; city, state, country, or otherwise. 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