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Chris Cole

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Nov 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/22/99
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I post this puzzle for Mark Featherbe <ma...@featherbe.freeserve.co.uk>:

What letter comes next in the sequence.....

D, R, W, G, O, G, S, I, I, ...?

this is the same type of puzzle as.....

1.
J, P, J, B, K, ...
answer J for Jean Chretien, who became the Prime Minister of Canada in
1993.
The sequence is:-
Joe Clark (1979), Pierre Elliot Trudeau (1980), John Turner (1984),
Brain
Mulroney (1984), Kim Campbell (1993), Jean Chretien (1993).

2.
W, P, M, D, D, J, ...
answer A for Anthony Hopkins as in the Oscar Best Actors 1985-91.
The sequence is:-
William Hurt, Paul Newman, Michael Douglas, Dustin Hoffman, Daniel
Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins.

3.
N, M, M, M, N, N, N, N, E, ...
answer N as in the last letter of Neon, the tenth element in the
Periodic
Table.
The sequence is:-
hydrogeN, heliuM, lithiuM, berylliuM, boroN, carboN, nitrogeN, oxygeN,
fluorinE, neoN.

4.
F, M, D, I, D, G, A, ...
answer D as in Frankly My Dear I Don't Give A Damn -
the famous words spoken by Clark Gable when he was pretending to be
Rhett
Butler in
Gone with the Wind.


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