ODDS AND ENDS

1. FREE GIFT is a common oxymoron. A gift by definition is free.

2. Do you know a word that means people who have little or no interest in romantic relationships with others? They may or may not feel sexual attraction. 

3. What does Jack and the Beanstalk have in common with Pike's Peak?

4. Can you find the same name, once forward and once backward in MIRANDA RIGHTS?

5. Can you solve this rebus?   RUSUEN

6. Three homophones start with V and have the long A sound. Two of them are regular words, but one is only a proper name of a place. Can you name them?

7. An anagram of UNKIND gives the Yiddish word for a pest or boring person. What is it?

8. Can you think of a word that used to mean confused, stunned, unable to decide what to do next - but has come to mean - especially in its use by young people - the opposite - - unperturbed, undisturbed, not bothered at all?

9. The word ETHEREAL means "other worldly" but ironically (with the exception of an additional E, it is make up of the words THE REAL.

HINT:

5. It would help if you were a teenager in 1961. 

Answers:

 

2. AROMANTIC (not a typo of aromatic)

3. Beans talk and Pike speak.

4. IRA -mIRAndA RIghts 

5. "Run Around Sue" - hit song by Dion and The Belmonts (She goes out with other guys!)

6. VEIL

    VALE

    VAIL (Colorado ski resort)

7. NUDNIK

8. NONPLUSSED