Puzzle from NPR

Otolith · 12-09-2003, 10:48 AM

I heard this puzzle on NPR this weekend and thought it was pretty fun to try and figure out.

There is a famous singer, recognizable to both young and old, whose last name has 9 letters. If you remove 4 letters from the middle of this person's last name (middle meaning not including the first or last letter), you can rearrange them to make a word. By closing up the hole created by removing these four letters, the remaining letters IN ORDER create a second word that is a synonym of the first.

Who is the singer, and what are the two words?

First one to get it right gets no prize from Jennie

WheresMyBobber · 12-09-2003, 12:48 PM

Good job on solving this! I enjoy listening to the "puzzlemaster" on NPR, but I don't think I've ever solved one of the weekly puzzles like this one.

OceanBlue · 12-09-2003, 02:07 PM

Keta, they said "young and old" not "young and ancient" - that's why you don't know who she is :tongue:

BTW - I have a little something for you - you coming up anytime soon?

hntngirl · 12-09-2003, 11:15 PM

Barbra Streisand.......

rise

stand

Otolith · 12-09-2003, 11:30 PM

Very nice [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

How long did it take you?

hntngirl · 12-09-2003, 11:37 PM

Only a couple minutes, but fate helped. I had just read an article about her earlier this morning so she was the first singer that popped into my head!

:grin:

12-09-2003, 11:40 PM

Who's Barbra Streisand?