{"id":287559,"date":"2026-02-08T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287559\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:58:08","slug":"sunday-puzzle-ium-pandemonium-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287559\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle: -IUM Pandemonium : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sunday<\/p>\n

\n Sunday Puzzle<\/p>\n

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On air challenge <\/p>\n

The suffix -IUM ends the names of most metallic elements. But it’s also the ending of other words that aren’t elements. Answer these clues for them.
Ex. Boredom \u00a0–> \u00a0TEDIUM<\/p>\n

1. Size between small and large<\/p>\n

2. Fish tank<\/p>\n

3. Skull<\/p>\n

4. Platform for a speaker<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Large hall for physical exercise<\/p>\n

6. Sun room<\/p>\n

7. Building in which the stars of the night sky are projected on the ceiling<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0Individually owned apartment<\/p>\n

9. Payment to a speaker<\/p>\n

10. State of acute mental confusion<\/p>\n

11. Garden flower also known as a cranesbill<\/p>\n

12. Thousand years<\/p>\n

Last week’s challenge <\/p>\n

Last week’s challenge came from Alan Hochbaum, of Duluth, Ga.\u00a0Think of two hooved animals. Take all the letters of one of them and the last three letters of the other, mix them together, and you’ll get the first and last names of a famous actress. Who is it?<\/p>\n

Answer: <\/p>\n

Bo Derek<\/p>\n

Winner <\/p>\n

Anthony Baio of San Diego, CA.<\/p>\n

This week’s challenge <\/p>\n

This week’s challenge comes from Michael Schwartz, of Florence, Ore.\u00a0Name something in 7 letters that’s designed to help you lose weight. Insert the letters EP somewhere inside this word to get a two-word phrase naming things that are likely to add weight. What words are these?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR On air challenge The suffix -IUM ends the names of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-287559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}