Straight Up

Think of two famous men with 4 letter first names and 7 letter last names.

These two cross "town" rivals competed in a race in which the time difference between first and second place was 23 days.  Who are these men?

A:

The race as noted in the comments was the space race (escape car, first in space) and the participants are cleverly hidden in which 'rig sprang ahead'.

Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard

Joyeux Mercredi

Q:

Take the first name of a famous artist.  Move the last letter up 1 place in the alphabet and rearrange the result to get the last name of this artist.  Who is it?

A:


The title is in French a the picture is a fossilized "impression" of a fish narrowing the choices to French Impressionists.

Edgar Degas

Celebrity Anagranalogy II

As a refresher, an Anagranology is a made up word. It is a puzzle consisting of  anagrams and an analogy.

Q:

Rearrange the letters in each section to create an accurate analogy.

Sea Tunes : Hairdryer  : : Oh Sue Us : Social Penny

Hint:

Alpha

Omega

A:


The pictures are of Don King and Alicia Keys.  Alpha and Omega refer to first and last.

Don + Keys = donkeys    -     The symbol for the democrats 

US Senate : Harry Reid : : US House : Nancy Pelosi