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National Park Week Quiz #8: Jumbled Parks

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 28, 2012 - 3:59am

National Park Week Quiz #8 tests your ability to see things differently. Each of the 12 jumbles listed below can be unscrambled, using exactly the same letters (no more, no less), to reveal a word in the name of a national park.

We won’t make you to provide the full name of each park. Just unscramble all 12 of the jumbles before midnight today (12:00 p.m. EST) and you will be eligible for Traveler’s National Park Week prize drawing and a chance to win a National Geographic Trails Illustrated Map for the national park of your choice.

ALINED

WROTE

NOISED

SOIRE

NOTES

GREAD

CREEP

PELTOU

ODBFRED *

SGRIPSN

THRULE

YALEOR

* initially listed as "ORBFRED"

Remember: We don't want the full names of parks, we just want the unscrambled words.

Answers and a list of readers who answered correctly will be posted in tomorrow's Traveler. No cheating!

If we catch you engaged in sneakery, we will make you write on the whiteboard 100 times:

English actor Sir Michael Caine, winner of two Academy Awards (Best Supporting Actor for Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986, and Cider House Rules, 1999) is one of only two actors (the other being Jack Nicholson) who were Oscar-nominated in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Comments

Submitted by viewmtn (not verified) on April 28, 2012 - 7:33am.

Another challenging puzzle. So why couldn't you create any scrambles that used less common letters? Like Z or Q or X? Do you realize how many words in the English language (and therefore in park names) use the letters T, S, R, P, N, etc.?

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 28, 2012 - 7:47am.

Yup.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 28, 2012 - 8:25am.

Very impressive, Ranger Dave. Gold Star Pass, full privileges, including Wi-Fi.

Submitted by Ranger Dave (not verified) on April 28, 2012 - 8:38am.

I'd like to thank the Traveler for the Gold Star Pass. I will cherish it always and keep it on my mantle for all to see. First I'd like to thank.......Oh stop it! Keep the puzzles coming Bob. Lord knows my brain needs the work. Now, as for the privileges, could I get a nice, cold root beer on the rocks before I have to head off to work?

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 28, 2012 - 8:55am.

Just ring up room service and have 'em send up a few iced bottles of sarsparilla, Ranger Dave. You've earned it.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 28, 2012 - 9:02am.

Celbert, viewmtn, and Eric have all earned Gold Star Passes (again). Viewmtn reports that his decoder ring proved useless for this quiz, and he consequently had to use "brute force." Being unfamiliar with that particular tactic, the Quizmeister is left to imagine that it must involve kicking, pounding, and swearing.

To answer your question, celbert, the final quiz in the National Park Week series will be posted tomorrow (Sunday). The answers will be revealed Monday morning, and I will probably stop banging my head against the wall by Monday afternoon. After a few days of recovery I will begin readying the weekly quizzes for late May and early June. If we want to escape the editor's wrath, we need to get these things in place well before the launch dates.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 28, 2012 - 11:19am.

Nicely done, Caprice Kutz. Gold Star Pass, concierge floor, full amenities.

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on April 28, 2012 - 11:19am.

OK, we need to rearrange the chairs in the lounge to make room for Caprice. Welcome aboard!

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on April 28, 2012 - 11:59am.

I'm not exactly what the professor considers a Gold Star Pass to be, Kevin, but grab one on your way through the door!

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on April 28, 2012 - 1:31pm.

Concierge floor is getting crowded, now that EEW has gained admittance. Perhaps we'll need to move up to the mezzanine soon...

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on April 28, 2012 - 2:24pm.

OK, now that Janet in Kentucky has solved the professor's craftiness, we're opening the mezzanine level!

Submitted by y_p_w on April 28, 2012 - 4:24pm.

With totally unrelated commentary and photos:

ALINED - (GMC) DENALI

WROTE - (bell) TOWER

NOISED - (Southern California) EDISON

SOIRE - ROSIE (Perez)

NOTES - (Bridge) STONE

GREAD - EDGAR (Rice Burroughs)

CREEP - (Rocher) PERCE

PELTOU - TUPELO (Wood Carving)

ORBFRED - BEDFORD (Stuyvesant)

SGRIPSN - (mattress) SPRINGS

THRULE - LUTHER (Burbank Home & Gardens)

YALEOR - ROYALE (with Cheese)

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on April 28, 2012 - 4:29pm.

y_p_w obviously has too much spare time on his hands, as evidenced by his correct answer(s), though the rest of you will have to wait until tomorrow to understand why we make that claim. In the meantime, come on in and sit down, y_p_w.

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on April 28, 2012 - 5:07pm.

This quiz obviously is too easy. I'm going to need to pull the professor aside for a refresher course, or suggest he relinquish his Quizmeister title (kidding, just kidding!)

Welcome to the party, toothdoctor!

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 28, 2012 - 6:31pm.

Nice job, Kevin M and Ken. Join the party.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 28, 2012 - 7:05pm.

Several readers pointed out that the scramble that read ORBFRED should actually be ODBFRED, so I changed it in the quiz. My bad.