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Title: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 14th, 2009, 3:55pm By another name I played a role in WW2 Peeping at my collar you may see a lovely hue Chicks appear when I am near Heads up! <edit: no change to riddle itself> |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by Azgard on May 16th, 2009, 8:20am Okay, here's an attempt: [hide]A shirt A shirt with no sleeves is called a tank top, tanks played a role in WW2. Shirts can have collars of varying colours, or hues. When there is a shirt sale, the girls will be there, guarenteed, girls are sometimes called chicks. As for heads up, well, your head needs to be up to put on a shirt....[/hide] How'd I do? |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 16th, 2009, 5:10pm Not what I had in mind, Azgard. But I like your explanation and think it makes a good alternate answer. Keep trying! :) |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 20th, 2009, 12:27pm HINT: Think a little more about homophones... and when all else fails, step back and take a glance. 8) |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by K Sengupta on May 21st, 2009, 11:33pm [hideb]Chicks can also mean “young birds especially of domestic fowl”, and thus can figuratively represent fighter aircrafts, which are attracted by the sight of a battleship (or submarine).[/hideb] If so, [hide]German battleship Bismarck[/hide] may be a possibility. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 22nd, 2009, 12:58pm Actually your answer is fairly close but incorrect. Keep thinking like that though and you might figure it out :) |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by K Sengupta on May 23rd, 2009, 12:12am [hide]A “tank” can also attract enemy fighter aircrafts[/hide]. [hide]Looking at synonyms, a “reservoir”, or “pool”[/hide] - seems to be a possibility. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 23rd, 2009, 12:38am getting warmer... |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by K Sengupta on May 23rd, 2009, 1:11am A wild guess: [hide]A “nest egg”, since a tank can colloquially be called a “nest egg”. But, this does not seem to fit the second line[/hide]. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 23rd, 2009, 1:17am Maybe it's time to consider tanks are not the only vehicles used in WW2. ;) The ship guess was a bit closer... but anyway that's part of the riddle... if you can figure out that half it will lead you to the actual answer. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by Three Hands on May 23rd, 2009, 4:55am [hide]Well, the HMS Hood had a role to play in WW2 - even if it was just most famously being sunk by the Bismarck. Something tells me that Hood doesn't quite fit, though... Perhaps Pearl (as in Pearl Harbor) works better[/hide] |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 23rd, 2009, 5:34am No correct answers so far. This is not one specific craft... and I'd encourage exploring other clues in the riddle to set you in the right direction. Side note and won't give you clues about riddle: As for the HMS Hood, while it is probably most commonly remember now as being sunk by the Bismark, was once the greatest warship in the world and the USN was so impressed with her that it changed the look of the fleet permanently. Not to mention she bore a name with a lot of history as Adm Samuel Hood developed several revolutionary naval tactics in his time. (I'll stop being a history geek now hehe but hey, it might come in handy one day!) |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by denis on May 23rd, 2009, 8:47am [hide]frigate[/hide]? |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 23rd, 2009, 10:47am nope |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by K Sengupta on May 24th, 2009, 6:55am [hide]A rose field (or, rose garden). We know that President Franklin D. Roosevelt played a significant role in WWII, and "roosevelt" means a rose field.[/hide] |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by Three Hands on May 24th, 2009, 12:44pm [hide]Shell - although not too sure how it fits with the last line...[/hide] |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 25th, 2009, 4:59pm Nope. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by K Sengupta on May 25th, 2009, 11:03pm [hide]We know that the overall design of the classical submarine periscope is simply two telescopes pointing into each other. So, telescope (or, binoculars) can be assumed to be an approximate synonym of a “submarine periscope.” Is “telescope (or, binoculars)” the answer to this riddle?[/hide] |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on May 26th, 2009, 8:55pm [hide]Chicken[/hide] By another name I played a role in WW2 [hide]Chicken wire[/hide] Peeping at my collar you may see a lovely hue [hide]"Peeping" is really the only thing that fits here.[/hide] Chicks appear when I am near [hide]Chicken makes chicks[/hide] Heads up! [hide]More like "heads down" for chicken wire.[/hide] |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 27th, 2009, 12:28am Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the correct answer fits a bit better than that but you're super close :D |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by K Sengupta on May 27th, 2009, 11:02am [hide]May be a “chickenhawk”. The 365th Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Force, called the "Hell Hawks” did play a role in WWII[/hide]. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 27th, 2009, 8:10pm K Sengupta, nope. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by hmmmm on May 30th, 2009, 1:14pm Submarine? |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on May 31st, 2009, 12:41pm Nope. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by K Sengupta on Jun 1st, 2009, 11:22am [hide]“Radio”(or, "radio transmitter") - playing a role in WW II as “radar”[/hide]? |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on Jun 1st, 2009, 1:26pm No. Most of these are guesses and really don't fit more than one line of the riddle. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot's is still the closest by far. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Jun 1st, 2009, 9:46pm Well, here goes nothing. I've been stuck on [hide]Turkey[/hide] for a while but can't nail it down. It seems to fit for most: By another name I played a role in WW2 [hide]The Ottoman Empire was renamed "Turkey" in between the first and second world wars.[/hide] Peeping at my collar you may see a lovely hue [hide]That red thing[/hide] Chicks appear when I am near [hide]Turkey chicks are apparently known as poults, but they can also be called "chicks."[/hide] Heads up! [hide]This is where it falls apart. It seems to work well enough for the other three, though. (edit for random thought): Bowling, maybe? Three strikes...[/hide] The only other idea I have is [hide]foxhole/trench[/hide]. It definitely fits the first and last lines, but the second and third would require a serious stretch. That second one is an idea-killer, f'sho. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on Jun 1st, 2009, 11:09pm WTF, again you're quite close with the first guess. I like that you're putting a little effort into checking with a bit of research. One of the major clues, the WW2 reference, may or may not be something you've heard of before and in that respect the tank guesses were fairly close. So I'd recommend a little research and I think you'll figure it out pretty quickly. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Jun 3rd, 2009, 8:48pm Not sure but: [hide]It seems you're looking for the "colloquial" name of a WWII vehicle. It must be an airplane, since the name has to relate to "chicks" at some point and the names of the aircraft tend to relate to birds. There are a few that might fit; Eagle, Hawk, Falcon, and Owl seem decent. Better, though, is the Vought OS2U Kingfisher. I had never heard of this plane, but it's an amazing piece of technology, especially for its time. It's almost the equivalent of a space shuttle for an aircraft carrier: launching from a catapult, then landing on the water. I've put the Wikipedia link in the next hidden section. That recovery crane picture was pretty neat, I thought.[/hide] Hidden url: [hide]Kingfisher[/hide] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS2U_Kingfisher) [hide]Also, of the birds listed, the Kingfisher is the only one with a bright chest/neck patch. It's a flaming orange, so it definitely fits the second line. I guess you could make a case for the Eagle, but this seems much better. The last line is still a bit confusing, in my opinion. I guess it is capable of operating as a bomber, but it seems to have been designed more as a reconnaissance craft.[/hide] I don't know if this is the answer, but this riddle has led to some interesting research into vehicles which I didn't know existed. So whether I'm right or wrong, thanks! :D |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by ima1trkpny on Jun 4th, 2009, 12:02am WTF, not what I was looking for but you get an A+ for effort! :D I realized as I read the riddle over again I made a seriously misleading blunder so I'm going to reveal the answer. The answer I was looking for was duck. The WWII vehicle referenced is the DUKW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW) (pronounced "duck"), an instrumental amphibious vehicle. Hue refers to the lovely colors present on the necks and heads of drakes in most duck species and "Heads up!" is often used synonymously with "Duck!" when warning someone. Where I was very misleading was with the title and the clue "peeping" as those are synonyms for "gander" which can mean both a male goose and "to look at". Similar to ducks, it should have helped put people on the trail of water fowl, but not really fair as it opens up possibilities like "Spruce Goose" aka the H-4 Hercules (though it was not significant in WW2 for anything more than the debate the prototype sparked) and Hue could have been interpreted as Hughes, the maker of the H-4. I'm glad you enjoyed the research though and the Kingfisher is one of my favorite little tidbits of US Naval history. :) I apologize for my riddle mistake and I'll try not to flub up next time! |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Jun 4th, 2009, 7:47am Rats. I definitely should have figured that out. I did make the Spruce Goose connection, but I discounted it quickly instead of looking for possible similarities. If I hadn't gotten stuck on the chicks line, I might have looked at the land-based vehicles more carefully. |
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Title: Re: Take a glance Post by Eigenray on Jun 4th, 2009, 1:04pm The first thing that came to mind when I saw the third line was actually Jerry, so I thought I was on the right track for a minute... ::) (I also thought of Pip when I saw the word collar, but then I remembered he was in Vietnam, not WWII... ;) ) |
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