Quest  —  by  Dick Nuenke

 

 

 
The February 2001 Quest asked to find the commonality of the following eight persons.  The answer is that all are associated with a group identified by a number.
Bias   [Seven Sages]
"Sleepy Jim" Crowley   [Four Horsemen of Notre Dame]
Larry Fine   [Three Stooges]
Mily Balakirev   [Russian Five (composers)]
Abbie Hoffman   [Chicago Seven (activists)]
Judas Iscariot   [Twelve Disciples]
Darius Milhaud   [Les Six (French composers)]
Haywood Patterson   [Scottsboro Nine (black defendants)]
Delmar Burkitt  correctly identified the theme behind February's Quest.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
The Quest for March involves six words below.  Each of them has in common that changing one vowel (in bold) to a different vowel results in a common, recognizable word.  But all of the strange words below have something else in common.  Can you determine what it is?
Eastar
Texin
Pocan
Spectar
Selar
Fortron

 
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