All classes / Mr. Hansen
12/12/2005 [rev. 2/14/2007, 6/16/2007, 7/8/2007]

Name: _________________________

More Than 100 Elephant’s Wheels Puzzles

 

Instructions: Find a pair of rhyming words to satisfy each clue, as in the example of #27 below. A few MODD and AP Calc/Stat references are included for educational value. Items marked (2) are known to have at least 2 possible solutions. Good luck!

*Note: When I concocted these rhyming riddles in 2005, I thought they were all original, but alas, there is nothing new under the sun. My recent research has found only 7 answers that are true “Googlenopes,” to use Gene Weingarten’s word from The Washington Post. These are marked with a star (*). The other answers have counts ranging from 2 Google hits (#87) to well over a million (#99). Incidentally, the quoted phrase “elephant’s wheels” returns 4 Google hits, and “Babar car” returns 211, but this page is the only hit that contains both quoted phrases.

1.

Angry animal caregiver

 

25.

Disingenuous plaything

2.

Animal’s waist control (2)

 

26.

Drunk who makes predictions

3.

Animal’s waste control

 

27.

Elephant’s wheels      =      Babar car

4.

Antidote to a Broadway money-loser

 

28.

Extremely polite celebrity

5.

Antidrug enforcer of the deep

 

29.

Father’s pork cuts

*6.

Arc of object tossed in STA lunchroom

 

30.

Felon seen only subconsciously

7.

Argument after closing night

 

31.

Filthy elastic

8.

Autumn summons

 

32.

Finding a good present to open next

9.

Bangkok insect

 

*33.

Five pairs of rhymed lines

10.

Bear footwear

 

34.

Flaming legal document

11.

Bicyclist’s quick look

 

35.

Flattery accompanied by alcohol

12.

Bohemian get-together

 

*36.

Four feelings of misgiving (2)

13.

Botanical tantrum

 

37.

Frothy mixture of spoken music

14.

Canine confusion

 

38.

Garden gnomes’ championship

15.

Car that is both sleepy and annoyed

 

39.

Gigantic sled

16.

Clever fingerlings

 

40.

Greeks’ wrestling area

17.

Colorless floral garland

 

41.

Happy fish

18.

Competent dining room furniture

 

42.

Hex digit slippage (2)

19.

Complimentary yard plant

 

43.

Hidden employment

20.

Condi’s soft drink

 

44.

Hobo exit (2)

21.

Coquette’s T

 

45.

Huge feline container

22.

Decrepit automotive exterior

 

*46.

Inconsistent beer production

23.

Diagram of where it is safe to snooze

 

47.

Intersection for luxury cars

24.

Discussion of data or probability

 

48.

Jagger in his sixties


 

49.

John in the animal park

 

81.

Satanic celebrations

50.

John’s trousers

 

82.

Seating area trap

51.

Laid-back chap (2)

 

83.

Sentient frozen precipitation

52.

Large vessel made of shiny metal

 

84.

Shallow water destination

*53.

Local maxes and mins in grain beverage

 

85.

Shepherd’s timekeeper

54.

Majestic ensemble

 

86.

Significant triangle calculation

55.

Mired lorry

 

87.

Singing buddy

56.

Mocking by unassigned lunchers

 

88.

Soaked companion

*57.

Monty Python actor’s lubricant

 

89.

Sometime STA resident

58.

MP3 grass

 

90.

Spilling the beans in a Mongolian tent

59.

Noisy masses

 

91.

Star Wars truant

60.

Novel mucilage

 

92.

Surprise day off in winter (2)

61.

Odor at the edge (2)

 

*93.

Swab who tends the brig

62.

Outdoor area for poets

 

94.

Swine swamp

63.

Parasite’s joy

 

95.

Three expanding waves in a pond

64.

Persistent marking in piano music

 

96.

Too obviously ogling someone

65.

Pile of blooms

 

97.

Trepidation concerning eight bits

66.

Place to buy sculptures/paintings

 

98.

TV watcher’s abdominal fat

67.

Polite baloney

 

99.

Twice the difficulty

68.

Pooh shoe

 

100.

Uncivilized beer drinkers (2)

69.

Posh prison quarters

 

101.

Uncomfortably cold swimming area

70.

Poultry not fully visible

 

102.

Uncomplicated facial feature (2)

71.

Profane wheel-axle junction

 

103.

Underarm saliva

72.

Programmer’s cry

 

104.

Underwater chest

73.

Prohibition of military flight (2)

 

105.

Unhappy tenement (2)

74.

Protector of animal fat

 

106.

Well-drawn periodic function

75.

Psychic ennui

 

107.

White-bread purchasing mistake

76.

Reproval for talking during grace (2)

 

108.

Wide tie

77.

Rod to keep people from lighting up

 

109.

Widespread phoniness

78.

Royal wrinkles

 

110.

Zero or one made out of yarn

79.

Ruined area

 

 

 

80.

Run in inappropriate footwear