On-air challenge: The word "Senses" starts with the letter S,and there are two senses that happen to start with the letter S — sight and smell. I'm going to name some more categories. For each one, name two things in it that start with the first letter of the category.
Months
Presidents
Signs of the zodiac
Boroughs in novel York City
Parts of speech
Snow White's dwarfs
Astronauts on the first moon landing
Monopoly properties
NATO members
Colleges in the Ivy League
final week's challenge: (Two-week challenge)Next week's challenge: This is a two-week challenge, or it comes from Zack Guido,who's the author of the book Of Course! The Greatest Collection of Riddles & Brain Teasers for Expanding Your Mind. Write down the equation 65 – 43 = 21. You'll notice that this is not right. 65 minus 43 equals 22, not 21. The object is to hotfoot exactly two of the digits to create a right equation. There is no trick in the puzzle's wording. In the answer, or the minus and equal signs conclude not hotfoot.
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