Miscellaneous

An anagram, as you know, is a word or phrase made by transposing or
rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. The following are
exceptionally clever. Someone out there is deadly at Scrabble !
And has WAY too much time ...

Dormitory  =  Dirty Room

The Morse Code  =  Here Come Dots

Slot Machines  =  Cash Lost in 'em

Snooze Alarms  =  Alas! No More Z's

Alec Guinness  =  Genuine Class

The Public Art Galleries  =  Large Picture Halls, I Bet

A Decimal Point  =  I'm a Dot in Place

Eleven plus two  =  Twelve plus one

Contradiction  =  Accord not in it

This one's truly amazing:
 "To be or not to be: that is the question, whether 'tis nobler in
 the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

 And the Anagram:
 "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero,
 Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."

And for the grand finale:

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
 - Neil Armstrong

 The Anagram:
"Thin man left planet, ran, makes a large stride, pins flag on
 moon! On to Mars!"



The world's easiest quiz

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?
2) Which country makes Panama hats?
3) From which animal do we get catgut?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
7) What was King George VI's first name?
8) What color is a purple finch?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
10) How long did the Thirty Years War last?

Answers

1) 116 years, from 1337 to 1453.
2) Ecuador.
3) From sheep and horses.
4) November.  The Russian calendar was 13 days behind ours.
5) Squirrel fur.
6) The Latin name was Insularia Canaria - Island of the Dogs.
7) Albert.  When he came to the throne in 1936 he respected the
   wish of Queen Victoria that no future king should ever be
   called Albert.
8) Distinctively crimson.
9) New Zealand.
10) Thirty years, of course. From 1618 to 1648.